Tag: Eastern District of Texas
All My Excess (Venue) Leaving Texas
Yesterday afternoon, the Federal Circuit overturned the Eastern District of Texas’s test for venue. Even after TC Heartland, patent trolls were trying to keep defendants in the Eastern District of...
TC Heartland’s Effects: A Bang Or A Whimper?
Since tomorrow we’re celebrating Independence Day here in D.C., I thought I’d go back and revisit the Independence From Eastern Texas case, TC Heartland, to see how big of an effect it has really ...
The Special Nature Of Venue In Patent Law
TC Heartland continues to impact the world of patent litigation. I haven’t run the numbers yet on what’s happened since the decision came down, but just having read through the list of cases fil...
ContentGuard: Arguendo
Today, we watched as a man stood in front of a panel and explained how the other side had behaved improperly and how the decisions they made were incorrect and contrary to applicable legal standards.
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ContentGuard: Validity and Privilege
Monday I summarized the history of the ContentGuard cases, and yesterday I described the process of claim interpretation. Today, we’ll turn to an issue that we’ve focused on recently, patent val...
ContentGuard: Defining A Patent Case
Yesterday, I went through the history of the ContentGuard v. Apple and ContentGuard v. Google cases. I talked briefly about the Markman process; today, I’d like to go into more detail on what Mark...
Previewing ContentGuard v. Apple and Google at the Federal Circuit
This Thursday, June 8, the Federal Circuit will hold oral argument in ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. and in ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. v Google, Inc. (The Google case also includes a nu...
Uniloc-ing Defendants Into The Eastern District of Texas
Yesterday, Uniloc sued Google in the Eastern District of Texas. Uniloc is a Luxembourg based company, not a Texas company.[1. They incorporated in Luxembourg for tax reasons. There are a number of...
How TC Heartland May Affect District Court Filings: A Quantitative Assessment
This guest post was authored by Shawn Ambwani and Robert Jain. Shawn Ambwani is the COO and co-founder of Unified Patents. Robert Jain is an attorney at Unified Patents. This post provides a qua...