Patents, Forum Selection, Transfer of Venue

Factors Courts Commonly Consider When Deciding Motions to Transfer in ANDA Litigation

Womble Bond Dickinson on 12/20/2024

Where the Operative Facts Occurred - In assessing this primary factor, courts have looked to the location of defendant’s principal place of business, where the ANDA application was prepared, and where the ANDA product was...more

EDVA Reaffirms its Aversion to Litigation Between Out of State Companies in Recent Venue Decision

Troutman Pepper Locke on 6/20/2023

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

Judge Woods Holds Multiple Lawsuits on Same Patent Is Not A “Meaningful Connection” to S.D.N.Y. For Venue

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 6/22/2016

On June 1, 2016, District Judge Gregory H. Woods (S.D.N.Y.) granted Defendant ASUS Computer International’s (“ACI’s”) motion to transfer its patent infringement suit to the Northern District of California, where it is...more

Court Transfers Cases to Northern District of California

Morris James LLP on 9/7/2015

The defendants in three related cases moved for transfer to the Northern District of California where two other related cases were pending. The motions were granted. The Court found that the only Jumara factor weighing...more

Defendants’ Potential Liability Is Not Limited To 2% Of Accused Products Shipped To Delaware

Morris James LLP on 8/19/2015

Plaintiff asserts jurisdiction under the stream-of-commerce theory. Defendants shipped approximately 2% of the accused products from their Indiana manufacturing facility to two customer distribution facilities in Delaware. ...more

Case is transferred to the Eastern District of Missouri

Morris James LLP on 3/4/2015

Plaintiff is a Delaware corporation with principal place of business in California at the time the complaint was filed. Its current address is in New York. Defendant is an Ohio LLC with its principal place of business in...more