The Federal Circuit recently denied a mandamus petition seeking relief from a district court order denying a motion to dismiss a patent case for improper venue under 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b). Bel Power Solutions, Inc. sued...more
This post summarizes some of the significant developments related to patent litigation in federal district courts of Texas for the month of October 2021....more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a rare grant of two mandamus petitions directing the US District Court for the Western District of Texas to transfer the underlying patent infringement actions to the US...more
In re: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al., Appeal Nos. 2021-139, -140 (Fed. Cir. June 30, 2021) - In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit granted mandamus petitions filed by Samsung and LG Electronics,...more
Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions: In Re NITRO FLUIDS L.L.C. [ORDER] (2020-0142, 10/28/28) (REYNA, WALLACH, and CHEN) - Reyna, J. The Court considered a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking transfer from the...more
While we’ll all remember last week because of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, things were relatively quiet at the Federal Circuit. The Court issued just two written decisions in regular cases, two on mandamus...more
Federal Circuit Determines Time-Barred Petitioner Joined to an IPR Has Appellate Standing - In Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Research Corporation Tech., Appeal Nos. 2017-2088, -2089, -2091, the Federal Circuit held that a...more
On February 5, 2019, in a per curiam order, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Google’s petition for rehearing en banc, and deferred for another day the question of whether the presence of...more
Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Prost, Newman, Lourie, Dyk, Moore, O’Malley, Reyna, Wallach, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, and Stoll. Dissenting opinion to denial of petition for rehearing written by Reyna and joined by Newman...more
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
Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Reyna, Linn, and Hughes. On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the Eastern District of Texas. Summary: Under Federal Circuit law, the plaintiff bears the burden of showing that venue is...more
In a case pending in the Eastern District of Virginia, set to begin trial on June 12, 2017, the defendants filed a motion to transfer the case to the Eastern District of Tennessee following the Supreme Court’s decision in TC...more
The Federal Circuit, in In re: TC Heartland LLC (No. 2016-105), recently issued an opinion denying TC Heartland’s petition for a writ of mandamus to direct the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware to either...more
Last week, a Federal Circuit panel rejected TC Heartland’s Petition for Mandamus to direct the United States District Court for the District of Delaware to either dismiss or transfer the patent infringement suit filed against...more
On April 29, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an Order denying TC Heartland LLC’s petition for a writ of mandamus, affirming the scope of venue in patent cases, and declaring that “[t]he...more
On Friday, March 11, 2016, the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in In re TC Heartland, LLC on the issue of venue in patent cases in light of the Federal Courts Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act of 2011 amendments...more