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[News] Patent Trollville Loophole May be Closed

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5th Circuit Ruling Shoots Down IP Rocket Docket

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| Companies being sued for patent infringement just got a 
| get-out-of-the-Eastern-District-of-Texas-rocket-docket-for-free card, thanks 
| to an en banc ruling from the 5th Circuit.  
| 
| In a split 10-7 decision, the panel on Friday issued a writ of mandamus 
| ordering Eastern District Judge John Ward to transfer a product liability 
| case against Volkswagen to Dallas, where the car crash in the underlying case 
| took place.   
| 
| The majority wrote that "the district court clearly abused its discretion and 
| reached a patently erroneous result," when it denied Volkswagen's efforts to 
| have the case moved. The car company argued that the proper venue should be 
| the district where the crash took place.   
| 
| Although the case -- a family suing over design defects in the Volkswagen 
| Golf after a fatal accident on a Dallas freeway -- has nothing to do with 
| patent law, the circuit's decision will have big implications for the flood 
| of patent infringement lawsuits regularly filed in what has come to be known 
| as the country's most plaintiff-friendly venue.     
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202425247575


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Will the 5th Circuit Ground an Eastern District of Texas Rocket Docket?

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| In a mandamus case that could significantly alter one of the hottest federal
| civil dockets in Texas, the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard
| arguments on Thursday over whether a trial judge's discretion should be
| limited when a party moves to transfer venue.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421640751
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