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CAFC Declines to Change Venue Standard

Declined Rubber StampThe 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

CAFC Debates a Change in the Venue Standard

AIA trial proceedings, such as IPR’s, provide alternatives to traditional patent litigation, as Scott Kamholz and I discussed in our article “Good, Fast, Cheap Certainty: The Case for Patent Office Litigation,” (recently published in The New York Law Journal).  When considering an IPR and/or traditional litigation, factors such as cost, speed and convenience must be considered.  On March 11, 2016, the Federal Circuit took up the venue standard in patent litigation —… More