Why We Need Venue Reform to Restore Fairness to Patent Litigation

Posted by BernardSwiss on Aug 19, 2015 4:58 AM EDT
EFF; By Daniel Nazer
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Back in 2011, This American Life toured an office building in Marshall, Texas, and found eerie hallways of empty offices that serve as the ‘headquarters’ of patent trolls. Trolls love the Eastern District for its plaintiff-friendly rules, so they set up paper corporations in the district as an excuse to file suit there. Meanwhile, defendants find themselves dragged to a distant, inconvenient, and expensive forum that often has little or no connection to the dispute.

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