The fat patent docket of the Eastern District of Texas is targeted by patent reform bills that would end venue-shopping. Even though the American Intellectual Property Law Association didn’t like the idea of a congressional fix, it has found another way to say “enough is enough.”
The group has authored a brief supporting an appeal court’s smackdown of Judge T. John Ward, the man largely responsible for creating East Texas’s reputation as a forum for patent lawsuits that’s either “popular” or “infamous,” depending which side you’re on. In October, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an unusual writ of mandamus to force Ward to transfer a product liability case against Volkswagen to the Northern District in Dallas, where all the parties were located and the key events?including a car crash?occurred.
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