The Labor Day weekend seemed a good opportunity to catch up on the first six weeks in the “new world” of patent cases in the Western District of Texas, in the wake of Judge Garcia’s July 25 Order Assigning the Business of the Court as it Relates to Patent Cases. Obviously it’s still early days, […]
Huge news concerning Western District of Texas patent litigation! WDTX Chief Judge Garcia has posted a new Order Assigning the Business of the Court as it Relates to Patent Cases, effective today. The order, which is quite brief, provides: Upon consideration of the volume of new patent cases assigned to the Waco Division, and in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
So…the Link Update took an unscheduled January vacation—but now we’re back, proverbially tanned, rested, and ready. And at least for this go-round we’ll try to atone with a slightly-more-comprehensive-than-usual selection of links for you: Scott Graham of Law.com cites Mark’s coverage of Judge Albright’s denial of SK hynix’s motion to transfer (and paraphrases The Clash) […]
Earlier today the Federal Circuit granted a petition for mandamus in In re: SK hynix, the fourth in a recent string of significant orders concerning transfer-motion practice before Judge Albright. However, unlike the Federal Circuit’s prior orders in In re: Apple and In re: Intel (parts 1 and 2), this ruling doesn’t concern the substance […]
There’s now some more clarity on next steps in the VLSI v. Intel case. Intel and VLSI filed their opposition and reply briefs (respectively) yesterday, December 29. The Court and parties convened for a Zoom hearing at 10AM Central this morning. The parties’ argument largely focused on the proper interpretation of the final paragraph of […]
Where does Judge Albright go from here, following today’s Federal Circuit mandamus ruling in In re: Intel Corp.? (Mark covered the meat of today’s Federal Circuit order in this post, and covered the District Court’s original transfer ruling exactly one month ago.) Spoiler alert: Plaintiff VLSI has already filed an “Emergency Motion to Transfer Back […]