Judge Albright’s Court will be hosting yet another patent trial this coming week. Here’s how observers can dial in to the audio feed in Freshub v. Amazon, which is scheduled to open this morning, June 14: +1 669 254 5252 or +1 646 828 7666 or +1 551 285 1373 or +1 669 216 1590 […]
Yesterday the Court updated two of its standing orders: Standing Order Regarding Venue and Jurisdictional Discovery Limits and Standing Order Regarding Motion for Inter-District Transfer. Here are the highlights: Amended Standing Order Regarding Motion for Inter-District Transfer The Court made a one sentence addition to this order: “Whenever a Markman hearing is postponed pursuant to […]
We’ll start off this week with a roundup of last week’s links. Considering there was a full jury trial (albeit a very short one!) in the Waco Division last week, there actually wasn’t an overwhelming amount of media coverage. Perhaps that’s a sign of a maturing Court—i.e., as more jury trials occur in front of […]
Today the jury in CloudofChange v. NCR returned a verdict in favor of Plaintiff CloudofChange, to the tune of $13.2 million. The jury also found NCR liable for willful infringement of the asserted patents. Here is where we stand thus far in Waco patent trials: Interestingly, Plaintiffs have had better luck in the Waco Division […]
Last week was actually a pretty quiet week for media coverage of the Waco Division, but now we return to our (quasi-)regularly scheduled link roundup: Richard Lloyd of IAM Media covers remarks from Judge Albright made earlier this week at the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s spring meeting: Speed will remain of the essence in […]
Another week, another patent trial before Judge Albright. Here’s how observers can dial in to the audio feed in CloudofChange v. NCR, which is scheduled to open this coming Monday, May 17: +1 669 254 5252 or +1 646 828 7666 or +1 551 285 1373 or +1 669 216 1590 Webinar ID: 161 139 1881 […]
Earlier today Judge Albright spoke at a Zoom-hosted “Fireside Chat” sponsored by the Austin Asian American Bar Association. Though if there was actually a fireplace nearby, it didn’t make it on camera. But we digress… Principal Kat Li of McKool Smith facilitated an engaging and info-packed 45 minutes, which we’ll summarize below. Some of the […]
On May 10th, the Federal Circuit denied a writ of mandamus requested by Western Digital Technologies (WDT), which unsuccessfully sought transfer out of the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). While the Federal Circuit did not explicitly endorse the District Court’s reasoning, it did confirm that […]
UPDATED MAY 7 We thought readers of the blog might like to know that at 11:30AM Central next Thursday, May 13, Judge Albright will be delivering Zoom-based remarks on the topic of “his practices regarding trial, claim construction, discovery, and other hot topics” at a Fireside Chat event sponsored by the Austin Asian American Bar […]
To make up for our recent brief layoff, we’ll try to bring you a slightly meatier-than-normal summary of recent happenings in and coverage of the Waco Division. Here’s what we’ve picked up over the last few weeks that’s not related to VLSI-Intel II: ESW-Roku: As we covered a couple weeks back, Judge Albright’s third patent […]