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From the mid-1990s until the mid-2010s, the EDVA typically ranked among the top 10 federal districts for patent litigation. See Gugliuzza, Paul R. and Anderson, Jonas, Why Do Judges Compete for (Patent) Cases? at 24-25...more
Background The term “venue” in New York State civil procedure means the county in which a lawsuit is filed and prosecuted. Although it may seem somewhat inconsequential on its face, venue is an important strategic tool for...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered a district court to transfer a patent infringement case from Texas to California because the district court had wrongly assessed facts relating to the convenience of...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied a patent owner’s petition for writ of mandamus, finding that the district court properly transferred a case from the Eastern District of Virginia to the Northern District...more
For the third time in as many months, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found clear error in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas’s denial of a defendant’s motion to transfer venue. In re...more
Although the Federal Circuit didn’t issue a lot of precedential decisions last week, it continued the recent trend of venue transfer decisions out of the Western District of Texas. Below we provide our usual weekly statistics...more
Since Judge Alan D. Albright took the bench in the Western District of Texas in September 2018, the number of patent litigation cases in that district has risen exponentially....more
This post summarizes three interesting opinions out of the Eastern District of Texas in December 2019. Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas (E.D.Tx.) recently denied three disputed transfer requests...more
This post summarizes some of the significant developments in the Eastern District of Texas and the Western District of Texas for the month of June 2019....more
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Maryellen Noreika in Viretem Ventures, LLC v. YouTube, LLC and Google, LLC, Civil Action No. 18-917 – MN (D.Del. May 16, 2019), the Court denied the motion of Defendants YouTube,...more
Prop 65 Plaintiffs routinely file most Prop 65 cases in Alameda County, presumably because they believe it is a plaintiff-friendly forum. However, the California Court of Appeal recently issued a victory for Prop 65...more
This post continues our monthly summary of patent litigation in the District of Minnesota, including short summaries of substantive orders issued in pending cases. In August 2017, there were three notable decisions for...more
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Gregory M. Sleet in Koniklijke Philips N.V. v. HTC Corp., Civil Action No. 15-1125-GMS (D.Del. July 18, 2017), the Court denied Defendants’ Joint Motion to Transfer Venue which...more
By Memorandum Order entered by The Honorable Gregory M. Sleet in Blackbird Tech LLC d/b/a Blackbird Technologies v. TuffStuff Fitness et al., Civil Action No. 16-733-GMS (D.Del. April 27, 2017), the Court granted the motion...more
Data shows that although transfer motion filings in the Eastern District of Texas decreased 50% year-over-year from 2014 to 2015 (from 135 to 63), the percentage of successful motions increased from 34% to 43%. According to...more
Plaintiff is a Delaware LLC with its principal place of business in Carmel, California. Plaintiff was formed in June 2014 and the complaint was filed in November 2014. One defendant is located in Korea, and the others...more
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., et al. v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al., C.A. No. 14-1106 - GMS, July 9, 2015 Sleet, J. Defendants’ motion to transfer venue to the Northern district of Georgia is denied....more