Federal Circuit Orders Transfers Verizon out of Eastern Texas
With respect to Verizon et al, the petitioners moved to transfer the case to the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, which is approximately 150 miles away from the Eastern District of Texas,...
View ArticleCAFC OKs Transfer Despite Forum Selection Clause
In a non-precedential opinion issued October 18, 2013, the Federal Circuit decision calls into question the overall utility of forum selection clauses in contractual relationships. In fact, Eli Lilly...
View ArticleRaytheon, Nokia, Ericsson ask Federal Circuit to deny Cray mandamus on denied...
Raytheon, Nokia and Ericsson all filed briefs with the Federal Circuit encouraging the court to decline the Cray mandamus on a motion to transfer from EDTX... Cray is asking the Federal Circuit to...
View ArticleUSPTO Increases IPR Filing Fees by $6,500 in Final Rule on Fee Adjustments
The USPTO issued a final rule to set or adjust certain patent fees as the agency is authorized to do under the America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011. The fee increases, which include some significant...
View ArticleMessy Trademark Case Over ‘The Sloppy Tuna’ Gets Cleaned Up by the Second...
???In Montauk U.S.A. v. 148 South Emerson Associates the Second Circuit vacated-in-part an earlier ruling in a trademark case. In that ruling, the district court denied a motion for preliminary...
View ArticleCapitol Records v. ReDigi: No Fair Use or Lawful Resale of Music Files Under...
The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently issued a decision in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc. affirming a previous finding out of the Southern District of New York that ReDigi’s digital...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Grants Apple Petition for Writ of Mandamus to Transfer Uniloc...
On November 9, the Federal Circuit granted Apple’s petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Western District of Texas to transfer Uniloc’s patent infringement suit against Apple to the Northern...
View ArticleCAFC Affirms Improper Venue Ruling in Victoria’s Secrets’ Favor
On August 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed the Eastern District of Texas’ partial grant of Victoria’s Secret Stores LLC, Victoria’s Secret Stores Brand Management...
View ArticleCAFC Corrects Albright on Transfer Again, Granting Mandamus to Volkswagen and...
Just as some sources had begun to speculate that Judge Alan Albright had received the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s (CAFC’s) message on transfer—in light of a slew of...
View ArticleCAFC Continues Its Censure of Albright on Transfer Analyses
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday directed Judge Alan Albright’s Waco Division of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to transfer a case brought...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Continues Transfer Trend, Orders Gilstrap to Send Google and...
On May 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an order in In re: Google, LLC granting petitions by Google, Waze and Samsung seeking writs of mandamus to direct the Eastern...
View ArticleMore Mandamus Maneuvering at the CAFC in Latest Venue Transfer Win for Apple
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today granted Apple’s petition for a writ of mandamus asking the court to direct the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to...
View ArticleFaux Outrage Over Patent Friendly Court Leads to WDTX Order Curbing Albright...
Yesterday, Chief Judge Orlando Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas issued an order that, in Garcia’s words, will “equitably distribute” new patent cases among 12...
View ArticleCAFC OKs Transfer Despite Forum Selection Clause
In a non-precedential opinion issued October 18, 2013, the Federal Circuit decision calls into question the overall utility of forum selection clauses in contractual relationships. In fact, Eli Lilly...
View ArticleRaytheon, Nokia, Ericsson ask Federal Circuit to deny Cray mandamus on denied...
Raytheon, Nokia and Ericsson all filed briefs with the Federal Circuit encouraging the court to decline the Cray mandamus on a motion to transfer from EDTX... Cray is asking the Federal Circuit to...
View ArticleUSPTO Increases IPR Filing Fees by $6,500 in Final Rule on Fee Adjustments
The USPTO issued a final rule to set or adjust certain patent fees as the agency is authorized to do under the America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011. The fee increases, which include some significant...
View ArticleMessy Trademark Case Over ‘The Sloppy Tuna’ Gets Cleaned Up by the Second...
???In Montauk U.S.A. v. 148 South Emerson Associates the Second Circuit vacated-in-part an earlier ruling in a trademark case. In that ruling, the district court denied a motion for preliminary...
View ArticleCapitol Records v. ReDigi: No Fair Use or Lawful Resale of Music Files Under...
The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently issued a decision in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc. affirming a previous finding out of the Southern District of New York that ReDigi’s digital...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Grants Apple Petition for Writ of Mandamus to Transfer Uniloc...
On November 9, the Federal Circuit granted Apple’s petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Western District of Texas to transfer Uniloc’s patent infringement suit against Apple to the Northern...
View ArticleCAFC Affirms Improper Venue Ruling in Victoria’s Secrets’ Favor
On August 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed the Eastern District of Texas’ partial grant of Victoria’s Secret Stores LLC, Victoria’s Secret Stores Brand Management...
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