Federal Judiciary

January 2010 patent docket, rounds 2 and 3 ...

By Michael C. Smith

As I previously noted, last week ended with a JMOL in favor the accused infringer in the patent case in trial in Judge Ward's court in Marshall, and Judges Davis and Love's patent cases in Tyler both settled (the former before opening statements, the latter during trial). 

This morning the courts reloaded with Judge Everingham starting a patent case in Marshall (after a hot couple of weeks of pretrial motions throwing around all kinds of interesting claims, resulting in a flurry of court orders that I'll get to later)  and Judge Folsom picking a jury in Texarkana, also in a patent case.

That's five patent cases all getting at least to voir dire in front of five different judges in three divisions, with magistrate judges handling two of the five trials.

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).