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> District Court Judge Alan Albright, a former patent litigator and magistrate who was sworn in as a federal judge in 2018 and has quickly turned his courtroom

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > This sounds so fishy. Doesnt this stink of corruption? It stinks of being completely (well, not about his pre-bench history but the other bit) false, since the Supreme Court case restricting patent lawsuits to the district in which the defendant is incorporated was handed down before Albright was appointed to the bench, and within a district while there is some maneuvering parties can do to hope to influence which judge is assigned, it's not like a free choice, so the implication being made is mostly procedurally impossible.
• wahern 6y ago
  The patent law community is extremely insular, partly because patent law is so esoteric and only gets more esoteric as time goes on. I would imagine that especially at the district court level it's not uncommon for a judge with patent law experience to be preferentially assigned patent cases. Indeed, after some quick Googling, it seems such an approach is mandated by law in some district courts under the Patent Pilot Program: https://uclajolt.com/articles/933/ https://uclajolt.com/articles/933/