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you are probably thinking of Nacogdoches County, Texas. The population there is largely rural, but the County seat court has national scale cases on patents..
by mistrial9 2y ago
you are probably thinking of Nacogdoches County, Texas. The population there is largely rural, but the County seat court has national scale cases on patents.. more info welcome.. vague recall is that there was one particular Judge for a long while, but it was so obvious what was going on that the Judge was moved.. now there are others?
- lotsofpulp 2y agoIt was originally the Eastern District Court in Tyler, Texas. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/deep-dive-why-we-need-venue-reform-restore-fairness-patent-litigation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/deep-dive-why-we-need-... However, it was finally neutered by the TC heartland Supreme Court ruling in May 2017: https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/patent_lawsuits_drop_21_percent_in_the_eastern_district_of_texas_as_scotus https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/patent_lawsuits_drop... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Heartland_LLC_v._Kraft_Foods_Group_Brands_LLC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Heartland_LLC_v._Kraft_Food... After this though, as an adjacent commenter posted, Alan Albright, a judge in Waco, took on the responsibility of being a patent troll because he could direct all the tech company cases to him due to Austin being in the western district.