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Jurisdiction TC Heartland LLC v Kraft Foods

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

Pendent Venue: What Is It, and Can You Still Rely on It?

Venue, in the context of the federal law, refers to the judicial district in which a case can be heard. Venue must be established for each cause of action in a case. In most federal civil litigation, proper venue is...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Don’t Mess with Texas? State Sovereignty Doesn’t Make Plaintiff Immune to Venue Transfer

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the arguments of a state university in support of sovereign immunity and affirmed the district court’s decision to transfer the case to the District of Delaware. Board...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Clear Trends Visible in the Post-TC Heartland Patent Landscape

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The patent landscape experienced a paradigm shift with the May 2017 United States Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Group Brands. In TC Heartland, venue in patent cases was narrowed to either (1) the...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Alexa: What is venue?

A recent decision from the Northern District of New York provides a detailed outline for analyzing venue in patent infringement cases, and may provide facts that companies with equipment installed in other districts should...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Mandamus for the rest of us - The Federal Circuit continues its trend of clarifying patent venue post-TC Heartland

On May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court fundamentally narrowed patent venue by unanimously holding in TC Heartland that patent holders must follow the patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), which requires suing (1) “where the...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Venue Cannot Be Bootstrapped to a Defendant that Only “Works Closely” with a Resident Corporate Relative Co-Defendant

Further to our ongoing coverage of post-TC Heartland patent litigation, in a recent case in the Western District of Wisconsin, the court granted defendants’ motion to transfer for improper venue. In doing so, it rejected the...more

Butler Snow LLP

Pro Te: Solutio - Vol. 10 No. 3 – Summer 2017

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Every summer vacation (or, at least, the ability to take the weekend off!) should include a good read. Whether your preference runs toward a memoir with words of wisdom, a review of new technical advancements, issues of...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

In re Cray Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2017)

Judge Gilstrap's Short-lived Venue Calculus - The Federal Circuit has spent more than a decade as the Supreme Court's favorite judicial whipping boy, usually because the Court apprehended that their appellate inferior had...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Retail and Consumer Products Law Roundup - August 2017

Data Breach Lawsuits Continue to Fill the Courts - Data breach litigation continues to fill the courts in all stages, with a new class action filed against Tempur Sealy International and the dismissal of a suit against...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Key SCOTUS Decisions in Tech – First Half 2017

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Despite being short one justice for much of the year, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down multiple significant decisions this past term that can unsettle long-standing legal understandings in multiple technology fields. These...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New Life for Venue Challenges under TC Heartland after Rule 12 Motions Are Concluded

In a May 23, 2017 Text Order, the District Court for the Central District of Illinois directed the parties sua sponte to brief the impact of the Supreme Court’s May 22, 2017 decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fresh From the Bench: Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit:

The big news this week (and it is particularly big news in Tyler and Marshall, Texas) is that the ?Supreme Court rules that a defendant “resides” for purposes of the patent venue statute only ?where the defendant actually ?is...more

Smith Anderson

T.C. Heartland Leaves Open Patent Venue Questions

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The words “venue” and “headline news” are typically not found in the same sentence. Yet the United States Supreme Court’s decision in T.C. Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, 581 U.S. ___ (2017) managed to achieve...more

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