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Lots of terms to be construed in this 125 page claim construction order from the square in Marshall.
Lots of terms to be construed in this 125 page claim construction order from the square in Marshall.
Judges in Marshall and Plano both denied motions for stays pending IPR institution in the last week.
Does the CAFC’s opinion require dismissal?
Welcome from snowy East Texas, where we’re reading the latest in injunctions in the fight between China and Texas courts.
The issue and outcome are not unusual, but the court’s analysis provides some additional insight into the decision.
For some reason, documenting partial dismissals is not as simple as calling the other side up and saying “yeah, we’re dropping these claims/defenses”. Here’s a way it can be done.
This order combined Judge Gilstrap’s rulings on several procedural motions in a patent case addressed at a recent hearing.
That’s two stays denied in this case in less than two weeks. Hmm.
Following jurisdictional discovery, the court determined that the facts to support personal jurisdiction just weren’t there.
Yesterday the Federal Circuit affirmed Judge Gilstrap’s Section 285 finding from earlier this year, providing another data point on when a case is “exceptional.”