Nearly one third of all patent cases filed in the United States are heard by a single judge - J. Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas. Many of these cases involve e-commerce or other internet-based patents such that patent eligibility is commonly challenged. It is therefore significant when J. Gilstrap holds a website-based patent invalid under §101, as he recently did in the case of Gonzalez v. Infostream Group.
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