UPDATED 11:40AM 4/5/21 For those unaware, Judge Albright has another patent trial on his Court’s docket next week. The case is ESW Holdings, Inc. v. Roku, Inc., No. 6:19-CV-00044. (As projected defendant in two of Judge Albright’s first three patent trials, Roku’s going to end up with quite the Waco Division frequent-flier card, at this […]
Yesterday afternoon, the Court entered a text order denying Defendants Dell Technologies Inc., Dell Inc., and EMC Corporation’s Motion for Intra-District Transfer to the Austin Division. See UNM Rainforest Innovations v. Dell Techs., 6:20-cv-00468. As our readers know, the Court recently issued a new Standing Order (which we covered here), which only covered inter-district transfer […]
The Waco Division continues to be a topic of much attention in legal media: As we noted previously, the Federal Circuit recently ruled that Judge Albright did not abuse his discretion in transferring the True Chemical v. Performance Chemical case from the Midland-Odessa Division to the Waco Division. Note, however, that in connection with a […]
Today the Court released a new standing order entitled “Standing Order Regarding Motion For Interdistrict Transfer.” The Order states that all parties who have filed a motion for inter-district transfer are required to provide the Court with a status report, which is to inform the Court whether the motion is fully briefed and ready for […]
As regular followers of Texas IP litigations are aware, it’s been a busy March: Judge Albright’s second-ever patent trial recently resulted in a massive verdict for the patentee, and the past three weeks have also seen four patent trials concluded in the Eastern District of Texas (two in Marshall and two in Sherman). We at the […]
As far as this blog is concerned, the most significant media coverage of the Waco Division this week was Scott Graham’s Q&A with Mark and Joe for Texas Lawyer, regarding How the Western District of Texas Became a Patent Hot Spot (subscription required). But of course, the Waco Division received other attention, as well: For […]
We didn’t have time to get to it on Friday, so instead we’ll begin this week with a link roundup, with mini-summaries of our own layered in. The VLSI-Intel trial may be done, but Waco Division media coverage has slowed barely, if at all. Here’s what came across our radar over the past couple weeks […]
Recently Judge Albright issued an order denying LG Electronics’ Motion to Transfer to the Northern District of California (“NDCA”) in a case filed by co-plaintiffs Ikorongo Texas LLC and Ikorongo Technology LLC. What’s most interesting about this order (not just that it was denied) is Judge Albright’s rationale regarding one of the two plaintiff entities. […]
We’ll close our formal VLSI-Intel wall-to-wall coverage with what we hope is a comprehensive collection of stories about VLSI v. Intel from the past couple weeks (including repeating a few links we shared previously): First, working backward in time, here’s coverage of the verdict and post-trial analysis: Joe spoke with Scott Graham of Law.com immediately […]
We’re generally leery of too-definitive “What does it all mean?”-type analysis. But we also assume that most of the (presumably mostly) lawyers reading this publication are doing so with a forward-looking view: i.e., if you were the advocate or the client appearing in front of Judge Albright, what would you want to know? So here’s […]