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Supreme Court Ends Texas’ Grip on Patent Cases
- msie 9y agoI actually understood the article. Great job!
- parent5446 9y agoYou might want to avoid claiming that as a great achievement.
- RandVal30141 9y agoGood to hear.
- RichardHeart 9y agotldr: "...corporate patent defendants can only be sued where they are incorporated or where they allegedly infringe the patent and have a regular and established place of business." I wonder what the patent-scam scum will pivot to. Probably making sure no one in the Eastern District of Texas maintains a regular business there, then creating new cancerous jurisdictions elsewhere in the USA, perhaps Delaware. That's probably too hard a nut to crack. I think the cancer will metastasize.
- cft 9y agobut it will be harder to make the troll's arguments to the juries in places where productive companies actually supply jobs
- RichardHeart 9y agoYes, it's surely progress. I'd prefer punitive action in addition to the preventive measures. Corruption of the court system itself is heinous.
- colechristensen 9y agoThere will surely be a new scam, but it won't be as lucrative. If the court can only harm business of local interest then it's much less likely to do harm.
- alsadi 9y agoThe article cites number of patent cases taken to court over years. One should note that the damages are geater. When a patent troll was able to stop Microsoft from distributing their office because someone patented a way to save documents in xml and regardless of the final rule or the settlement. The FUD is enough to make many people pay without being sued.
- emmab 9y agoWill this mean that companies will actively avoid establishing offices in states with any courts that favor prosecutors in patent cases? That in turn creates a motivation for states to make their courts neutral, or favor defendants in patent cases.
- seibelj 9y agoJurisdictions will compete, and maybe one will rarely enforce any software patents, which I would prefer. I would love for someone to link to a single truly novel software patent, the quintessential "this is why we need software patents" patent. I have yet to read one.
- ransom1538 9y ago"where they allegedly infringe the patent and have a regular and established place of business." So if you are an internet company, add this to your header: if (ip_address_in_texas) exit; Otherwise you might still being doing business there?
- colechristensen 9y agoIf Texas was a country instead of a state, it would have the 10th largest economy in the world, you won't see any such games to avoid Texas (not that it's legally relevant anyway)
- ransom1538 9y agoOh? So if your servers cannot connect to anyone in texas you are still liable to trollers for having a business there?
- yellowapple 9y agoI believe the point was that blanket-banning Texas makes no fiscal sense (especially in the wake of this new judicial development), since you're cutting yourself off from a lot of potential revenue with little benefit.
- codazoda 9y agoThat's how the trolls were using TX courts prior to this decision. If you have a website, you're doing business in TX and that's where we'll sue. Sounds like this requires you to be based out of or incorporated where you're sued.
- Cozumel 9y agoSo when is Rodney Gilstrap ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/the-year-in-patent-litigation-more-trolling-more-texas/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/the-year-in-pate... ) going to be investigated for corruption? It seems pretty clear, he passed the law that made it happen, the cases come in front of him.