Fed Circuit is Irritated by Renegade Judge Albright
In In re Apple Inc., the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted Apple’s petition for writ of mandamus ordering the judge presiding over its district court patent infringement case, Alan D....
Limitations on State Sovereign Immunity on Venue
Source: U.S. Patent No. 7,033,603, Apr. 25, 2006, to Kevin D. Nelson & Brent B. Crow (inventors); Board of Regents of the Univ. of Texas (assignee) The issue of sovereign immunity has been raised...
Fed Circuit Watch: District Courts Still Have Problems with Cray Rule
On February 5, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied a petition for writ of mandamus, with a combined petition for rehearing and/or rehearing en banc, in In re Google LLC, the...
Fed Circuit Watch: Post-TC Heartland Gaps Filled
Although the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its decision in T.C. Heartland, LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brand LLC more than one year ago, which this blog discussed, the contours of its holding are still...
Patent Venue Post-TC Heartland Begins to Take Shape
Back in May 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in T.C. Heartland, LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, that patent venue selection was limited to the defendant’s state of incorporation or principal...
SCOTUS Watch: TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
By Brent T. Yonehara On May 22, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an important ruling, TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, 581 U.S.\\\ (2017), in patent venue, and specifically...
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