On May 22, 2017 the U.S. Supreme Court unwound nearly 30 years of patent venue jurisprudence allowing domestic corporations to be sued for patent infringement in any judicial district in which the company does business. In TC...more
Patent litigation continues to be concentrated in a small number of venues. Of the 4530 patent cases filed in 2016, for example, patentees chose the Eastern District of Texas more than one third of the time (1661 cases). In...more
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