The Federal Circuit panel today rejected TC Heartland’s Petition for Mandamus to direct the United States District Court for the District of Delaware to either dismiss or transfer the patent infringement suit filed against it by Kraft. Heartland had argued that the 2011 amendments to the venue statute have changed the patent venue standard to permitting venue only where a defendant resides or where the defendant allegedly infringes the patent and has a place of business.… More
Monthly Archives: April 2016
It Stays Secret Only if it Doesn’t Matter: Confidentiality at the PTAB
The PTAB has rules for sealing evidence, but they are different from those in district court, like much else at the PTAB. Both parties in Google Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC, IPR2015-00806, got tripped up by them.
In district court, information designated by a party as confidential is treated as such by court until that designation is challenged by the opponent and ruled on by the judge. … More