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Denial of Talc Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction Reversed on Appeal

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Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District - The plaintiffs, John and Joanne Fleemin, filed the instant products liability lawsuit against numerous defendants, including Lornamead, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its...more

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Plaintiffs Allowed Additional Discovery to Establish Personal Jurisdiction over Hydraulic-Pump Defendant

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Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Western Division - Plaintiffs William Weaver and Judy Weaver filed suit, claiming that William Weaver was exposed to the defendants’...more

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Franchisee 101: Subject Matter Mania…

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A federal court in Florida dismissed an action by franchisees against their franchisor for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. The franchisees asserted claims under California and Florida laws alleging the franchisor, OR...more

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Automotive Defendant Obtains Dismissal for Lack of Jurisdiction

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United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, July 21, 2022 - In this asbestos action, defendant Honeywell International Inc., f/k/a Allied Signal Inc. as successor-in-interest to The Bendix...more

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Celgene Corp. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2021)

The question of the proper court for a branded pharmaceutical maker to bring suit against an Abbreviated New Drug Application filer under the Hatch-Waxman Act is surprisingly unsettled seeing as the Act was enacted in 1984. ...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry

Last Week in the Federal Circuit (August 2-6): No Secret For Obtaining Venue

The Federal Circuit wrapped up another (perhaps final) week of telephone arguments last week. As of now, the Court is still set to restart in-person arguments next month. But we’ll have to see if those plans change. Below we...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America LLC v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2020)

Somewhat remarkably, there is no settled Federal Circuit precedent regarding where a patentee can bring suit against a generic competitor in Hatch-Waxman litigation under 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(2).  While recognizing that this...more

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Parroting Language of Venue Statute Is Not Enough to Avoid Dismissal

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WESTECH AEROSOL CORPORATION v. 3M COMPANY - Before Lourie, Mayer, and Reyna. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Summary: To establish proper venue, a plaintiff must...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Court Lacks Personal Jurisdiction Over Connecticut Corporation Incorporated After Its Owner Allegedly Committed Tortious Acts

In Renova Partners v. Michael Singer and Greenlight Development Partners, Judge Sanders granted Greenlight’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction because, among other things, Greenlight was “not even in...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Still Open for Discussion: Venue Based on Presence of Servers

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit elected not to decide en banc whether servers or similar equipment in third-party facilities constitute a regular and established place of business under the patent venue...more

Allen Matkins

What Does California's LLC Alter Ego Statute Have To Do With A Delaware Corporation?

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Mr. Clapper is a California resident and the President, Chairman, and controlling shareholder of ScanX, a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in California. Mr. Carlson and Carlson Produce, LLC, an...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Full Federal Circuit Defers Addressing Venue Based on Presence of Servers in District

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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

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

“Registered to Do Business” Alone is No Longer Enough to Confer Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporations in New York

On January 23, 2019, the Appellate Division, Second Department issued a decision in Aybar v. Aybar, A.D.3d, 2019 NY Slip Op 00412 (2019). The Second Department’s holding substantially narrows the grounds for establishing...more

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In Re: Google LLC

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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

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Franchised Automobile Dealerships Count as Regular and Established Places of Business for Purposes of Proper Patent Infringement...

In our continuing post-TC Heartland coverage, Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas recently issued an interesting decision regarding the venue analysis for car companies selling into a particular...more

Hogan Lovells

US: Authorized automobile dealerships drive discussion on patent venue in the Eastern District of Texas

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In May 2017, the Supreme Court tightened the rule for venue over domestic defendants in patent infringement cases finding that, under 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), venue is proper only “in the judicial district where the defendant...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Seeking to Allege General Jurisdiction in New York? Corporate Registration is Not Enough

In Kyowa Seni, Co., Ltd. v. ANA Aircraft Technics, Co., Ltd., Docket No. 650589/2017, 2018 WL 3321410 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. July 5, 2018), Justice Saliann Scarpulla of the New York County Commercial Division joined in a long line of...more

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Under Patent Venue Statute, Servers Housed in Texas District Count as Regular and Established Place of Business

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The District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has denied Google’s motion to dismiss or transfer the patent infringement case SEVEN Networks v. Google for improper venue, finding that Google’s servers housed by...more

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Federal Circuit Review - June 2018

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A Complaint Identifying Infringing Products and the Patents Allegedly Infringed, Accompanied by Statements that the Products Meet All Elements of at Least One Claim of the Asserted Patents, May be Sufficient to Meet the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Two Companies Having a Close Relationship is Insufficient to Treat Them as Interchangeable for Purposes of Venue

In an order issued on May 4, 2018, a Western District of Wisconsin Court addressed venue issues relating to subsidiaries of the same parent. Plaintiff Unity Opto Technology Co. (“Unity”) sued defendants Lowe’s Home Centers,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Corporate Defendant in Patent Infringement Suit Does Not Necessarily Reside in All of the Judicial Districts in a State with...

The Federal Circuit ruled that when a defendant is incorporated in a state that has multiple judicial districts, the defendant will reside in only one of the districts for venue purposes under the patent venue statute, 28...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Federal Circuit Holds Federal Circuit Law Applies to Patent Venue Challenges and Places Burden on Plaintiffs to Establish Venue

On May 14, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, In re: ZTE (USA) Inc., No. 2018-113, held that Federal circuit law governs the burden of proof for venue challenges under 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b) and...more

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In Re ZTE (USA) Inc.

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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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

District Court Holds That Distributor Relationships Alone Do Not Establish Venue

A federal district court in the Southern District of Texas recently addressed venue issues relating to supplier-distributor relationships. Given the defendant’s lack of physical presence in the district, Chief Judge Lee...more

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District Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Deception Claims against Brewer

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On January 17, 2018, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued a decision in yet another putative class action alleging that a beer brand’s labeling and marketing was false and deceptive....more

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