After a string of rulings ordering patent infringement cases transferred out of the Eastern District of Texas, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently denied another transfer request despite the plaintiff company’s “recent and ephemeral” ties to Texas.
The May 12 per curiam majority order in In Re Apple Inc. denied the defendants’ request that the Federal Circuit order the Texas court to vacate an order denying their motion to transfer. The defendants wanted Personal Audio LLC v. Apple Inc. transferred to the District of Massachusetts because five nonparty witnesses reside in Massachusetts.
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