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Since the early 2000s, Texas district courts have been battling to maintain their status as the premier venue for filing patent lawsuits. At one point, 43% of all patent infringement cases in the United States were filed in...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently issued a writ of mandamus transferring a case from the Western District of Texas—a commonly chosen jurisdiction for patent infringement lawsuits—to the Northern...more
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
We are excited to share Sheppard Mullin’s inaugural quarterly report on key Federal Circuit decisions. The Spring 2023 Quarterly Report provides summaries of most key patent law-related decisions from January 1, 2023 to March...more
IN RE: STINGRAY IP SOLUTIONS, LLC - Before Lourie, Taranto, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Summary: A defendant’s post-suit, unilateral consent to suit in...more
On January 9, in In re: Stingray IP Solutions, LLC, the Federal Circuit vacated a transfer order issued by the Eastern District of Texas, thereby limiting a foreign defendant’s ability to negate venue in one court simply by...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
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
On Friday, October 22, 2021, Judge Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of Virginia (E.D. Va.) transferred Alvotech USA and Alvotech hf.’s (jointly, “Alvotech”) declaratory judgment suit against AbbVie Inc. and AbbVie...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
In Re: Juniper Networks, Inc. Before Lourie, Bryson, and Taranto. Per Curiam. On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Summary: A party’s relatively...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently issued a precedential opinion discussing plaintiffs’ attempts to influence venue through reliance on a licensing agreement that purported to limit where a patent...more
IN RE: SAMSUNG ELECS., CO., LTD. Before Lourie, Dyk, and Reyna. On Petitions for Writs of Mandamus to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Summary: Manipulation of venue through...more
On April 29, 2021, District Judge Sarah Netburn (S.D.N.Y.) granted defendant salesforce.com, Inc.’s ("Salesforce") motion for transfer of venue to the Northern District of California ("the NDCA")—where it is based—pursuant to...more
With Judge Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas finally cancelling his winter trials in the face of surging cases, attention turns to the Western District of Texas, which Judge Alan Albright is going in a different...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted an accused infringer’s mandamus petition to transfer a case from the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California, concluding that the district court...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
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
In a procedurally complicated case involving allegations of both utility and design patent infringement, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that a district court’s piecemeal approach to a design patent...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the arguments of a state university in support of sovereign immunity and affirmed the district court’s decision to transfer the case to the District of Delaware. Board...more
State Sovereignty Principles Do Not Allow a State to Bring a Patent Infringement Suit in an Improper Venue - In Board of Regents v. Boston Scientific Corp., Appeal No. 2018-1700, the Federal Circuit ruled that the patent...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
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