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convoluted way in which companies try to archive and maintain patent lawsuits in Texas known to the patent owner to use it. A few years ago, the Court of Appeal before which the courts of patent disputes threatened the East Texas and suggested that they should be more willing to transfer to other cases more reasonable.

This resulted in some games played by lawyers who want to keep the case in Texas. The popular is the creation of a completely empty office in some office buildings, which seem to specialize in this sort of thing. This was a good part of the recent

This American Life
Episode
patent, where journalists Laura Sydell Alex Blumberg and literally went to a famous building as Marshall, Texas, and knocked on doors to see if someone occupied the offices of "patent troll" companies. Another strategy was to sue the companies randomly in East Texas, with real targets. East Texas small businesses, often need to be removed later, but the patent trolls say, with so many companies in many places, East Texas is as good as anywhere else ... especially because at least one company is reached right there! Of course, one nice thing about Bill is probably recent patent reform ends of these attempts to unite the independent bogusly costs.

course, some lawyers go beyond such simple tactics. A personal favorite, of course, was the fact that TiVo has literally bought a bull prices in Marshall, Texas. Some say it was to influence the jury, but we wonder if it also help establish a "presence" in eastern Texas.


In this sense, it is interesting to note that counsel for the Silicon Valley has become a patent troll called Kevin Zilka, who has a rather dubious history with the filing applications in East Texas, it seems, has launched a dog park in eastern Texas. Again, it is assumed that this is a cynical attempt to Zilka to establish a good reason to support the jurisdiction of the case. Zilka, after all, the guy who went after a company four blocks Permalink | Comments | Email this article
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