Most of the big news out of Waco this week was Judge Albright’s updated procedures (which we covered here and here). Here are takes on those updates from others around the patent-litigation universe:
- Winston & Strawn’s WacoWatch blog covered the updates here.
- The Waco Patent Litigation Updates blog covered them here and here.
- Michael C. Smith of the Eastern District of Texas Blog covered them here and here (subscription required).
- Law360 covered them here (subscription required).
- Bloomberg Law covered them here (subscription required).
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In other news:
- Of great importance to an ongoing district court litigation is whether the PTAB decides to institute a parallel inter partes review. Brenton R. Babcock and Tyler R. Train of Womble Bond Dickinson have undertaken a statistical analysis of the circumstances under which the PTAB has declined to institute IPRs based on the discretionary factors set forth in NHK Spring Co. v. Intri-Plex Techs., Inc. and Apple Inc. v. Fintiv, Inc.: An Initial Statistical Analysis of the PTAB’s Recent “NHK-Fintiv Factor” Institution Decisions
- Bijal Vakil and Henry Y. Huang of White & Case published an analysis of potential defense strategies that parties sued in the Waco Division might pursue: A new “rocket docket” for patent litigation in the US: Successful defense strategies for Taiwanese businesses
- Paul Gugliuzza continued his examination of the Waco Division over at Patently-O, focusing on the Federal Circuit’s September 22 oral argument on a mandamus petition relating to the Court’s prior denial of Apple’s motion to transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1404: The Federal Circuit, Judge Shopping, and the Western District of Texas. (This blog previously covered the Waco Division’s approach to Section 1404 convenience transfers here.)
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