LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska will have to pay $725,000 in court costs and attorney fees after a federal judge ruled against the attorney general’s office in a patent infringement case.

U.S. District Senior Judge Joseph F. Bataillon ordered the payments this week in a lawsuit that included Attorney General Jon Bruning and two staff attorneys as defendants.

A Florida company that was suing Nebraska’s Pinnacle Bank added Bruning to the lawsuit after his office sent their lawyers a cease-and-desist letter to halt any new patent infringement lawsuits.

The company, formerly known as Activision TV, alleged in a lawsuit that Pinnacle Bank infringed on a patent of a remote control electronic display system. Bruning argued that the Texas law firm representing them was abusing patent laws. The firm says the allegations were baseless.