SCOTUS limits patent venue in Heartland ruling

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SCOTUS limits patent venue in Heartland ruling

May 22 2017
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Patent case filing will fall in the Eastern District of Texas following the Supreme Court’s ruling in TC Heartland v Kraft that residence of domestic corporations in §1400(b) refers only to the state of incorporation of the alleged infringer – the most important US patent decision since Alice

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