July 21 roundup
“Plaintiffs’ Attorneys to Get $800,000 in Preliminary Settlement, Class Members Receive Zero” [Calif. Civil Justice covering Bluetooth settlement in which Ted was objector; earlier here and here]...
View Article“Texas Judge Bans Microsoft From Selling Word in the U.S.”
The Eastern District of Texas strikes again. [DailyTech, Concurring Opinions, Legal BlogWatch, WSJ Law Blog, earlier] Tweet Tags: Eastern District of Texas, Microsoft, patent litigation “Texas Judge...
View Article“Patent reformer becomes troll, sues defunct OSS company”
And did a small defendant wind up being added to the list of those sued in an intellectual-property suit just in order to secure venue in the plaintiff-beloved Eastern District of Texas? [Ars Technica]...
View ArticleTroll Tracker blog suit settles
As the East Texas jury was set to begin deliberations. Per Joe Mullin’s must-read coverage at IP Law and Business, Rick Frenkel’s lawyer-critical blog is now entirely closed down even to private...
View ArticleOctober 12 roundup
Speech-curbing proposals continue to get polite academic reception: NYU’s Jeremy Waldron, big advocate of laws to curb “hate speech”, delivered Holmes Lectures at Harvard this past week [HLS,...
View ArticleEastern District of Texas
Explaining the role of the nation’s most famous venue for patent litigation [Brad Feld, Tech Review] Tweet Tags: Eastern District of Texas, patent litigation Eastern District of Texas is a post from...
View ArticleEast Texas patent venue
The Federal Circuit appears to be cracking down on a notorious symbol of forum-shopping, according to Richard Samp at Washington Legal Foundation’s Legal Pulse. Tweet Tags: Eastern District of Texas...
View ArticleSeptember 16 roundup
House Judiciary holds hearing on asbestos-claim fraud and abuse, with Prof. Brickman headlining [Main Justice, Legal NewsLine, WSJ law blog, PoL, Brickman testimony] Endangered species habitat in...
View ArticleIntellectual property law roundup
Deborah Gerhardt on the ruling in favor of an artist who paints Crimson Tide sports highlights without University of Alabama say-so [Deborah Gerhardt/Eric Goldman, earlier here, etc.] Posner throws...
View Article“How Newegg crushed the ‘shopping cart’ patent and saved online retail”
Backed by big-firm lawyers, a non-producing company that claimed its patents underlay the online shopping cart sued dozens of retailers and extracted tens of millions of dollars in settlements and...
View Article“Why patent trolls love east Texas”
Mike Masnick on a jury verdict against Newegg: “Having Whit Diffie (who invented public key cryptography) and Ron Rivest (who basically made it practical in real life) present on your behalf, showing...
View ArticleSeptember 2 roundup
Police have traced the crime wave to a single micro-neighborhood in the California capital [Sacramento Bee] “Adam Carolla Settles with the Patent Trolls” [Daniel Nazer/EFF, Reason, related eight days...
View ArticleIntellectual property roundup
“Our mangled patent system,” Cato podcast [with Eli Dourado of the Mercatus Center] Critique of federal circuit [Dourado at Cato Unbound] Since SCOTUS’s June decision in Alice v. CLS Bank, many courts...
View ArticleJohn Oliver on patent trolls
Here (language). “You cannot let trial lawyers decide whether there should be more baseless lawsuits. That’s the equivalent of trusting raccoons to make laws about garbage can placements. ‘They should...
View ArticleEastern District of Texas branches out
Marshall, Texas, famed as patent plaintiffs’ forum of choice, returns a $663 million False Claims Act verdict against Trinity Industries in guardrail supply case [Insurance Journal; earlier on the...
View ArticleEastern District of Texas bar group hires lobbyist
Don’t take away our lucrative shopping franchise! “Judges and lawyers from the Eastern District of Texas are battling back at legislation partially aimed at curtailing the inordinate number of patent...
View ArticleRating states on legal climates
“West Virginia courts have a well-deserved reputation for favoring plaintiffs, but the state’s Supreme Court may have gone too far this year when it said drug addicts who broke the law to obtain...
View ArticleNovember 25 roundup
Mississippi federal indictments in Mikal Watts BP case include fraud charges (arising from multiple wire transfers) against man who a decade ago, when pastor of a Hammond, La. church, pleaded guilty...
View ArticlePatent litigation: “Could the Eastern District of Texas’s Reign Come to an End?”
Federal law has allowed patent suits to be filed wherever a defendant is subject to personal jurisdiction, and as a result something like 40 percent of suits are filed in the rural Eastern District of...
View ArticleFalse Claims Act jumps the guardrails in E.D. Tex.
A $680 million award in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas illustrates some of the problems with the federal False Claims Act, the whistleblower law enabling bounty-hunting suits against...
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