Google is asking the entire Federal Circuit to review a divided panel decision that let the company be sued for patent infringement in the Eastern District of Texas.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled in July that Google servers housed in Internet Service Providers in the district meet the “regular and established place of business” requirement of the U.S. patent venue statutes. Google and a host of tech companies complained to the Federal Circuit that Gilstrap is defying the Supreme Court’s TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Group Brands decision on patent venue and the Federal Circuit decisions applying it.

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