A company based in Washington state being sued by Segway Inc. for patent infringement couldn’t escape outright Delaware’s jurisdictional reach because the company marketed itself nationally, made its products available on international retail sites and had a website that would have allowed Delaware residents to purchase its products, a federal judge has ruled.
All of that was enough for defendant Inventist Inc. to have shown an intent to market its allegedly offending products in the Delaware stream of commerce, U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson of the District of Delaware ruled in a Monday opinion in Segway v. Inventist. But the judge ultimately kicked the case to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, ruling that despite the company’s global aspirations, it is actually a regional enterprise with the bulk of its operations in Washington.
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