Posts Tagged: "customer suit exception"

Navigating the Customer-Suit Exception in Texas Courts

Texas has long been home to the busiest patent courts in the country. In the Eastern District, Judges Rodney Gilstrap and Roy Payne have for the last decade-plus seen more patent cases than any other judges in the country. Since taking the bench in 2018, Judge Alan Albright in the Western District has had the most active patent docket, taking 18% of all patent cases in 2022, for example. Much has been written about the judges’ perceived unwillingness to grant transfer motions in patent cases (and resulting challenges to the Federal Circuit) and disfavor of staying cases pending inter partes review. These factors suggest that a defendant in these courts have few options to stay or transfer their case.

House Passes Innovation Act, Battle Goes to Senate

A brake-down of the major provisions, the Amendments that passed and some key Amendments that failed… On Thursday, December 5, 2013, the United States House of Representatives passed the Innovation Act by a vote of 325-91. Surprisingly, the Innovation Act (HR 3309) had only been introduced on October 23, 2013, and was marked-up on November 20, 2013. “This schedule suggests the fix was in,” said Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) on December 3, 2013, “The clear message to little inventors: give thanks for your intellectual property rights, because you may not have them by this time next year.”