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EFF Asks Appeals Court To "Shut Down the Eastern District of Texas" (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge have asked a federal appeals court to make big changes to the rules governing venue in patent cases. The two public interest groups are seeking to file an amicus brief (PDF) which attacks the Eastern District of Texas as being one of the "most notorious situations of forum shopping in recent history." This district has made quite a few appearances on Slashdot; this is one of my favorites.
When I was in Texas 2 decades ago, there was a study:
So Texas Judges stand for election - they have to have a reelection fund. They only people willing to pay for a judge to be elected are lawyers who regularly appear before the judge. The study showed that the lawyer that donated the most money to the judges reelection campaign won cases a significant amount of the time.
I always assumed this was the "Polite" way of bribing the judge. Wonder how big the reelection accounts are for judges in east texas
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them
Full text (PDF) of the Amicus Brief is worth reading and not that long. Excerpts "The Eastern District has adopted certain procedural rules that benefit patent owners—particularly those with weak patents and no products—to the detriment of small innovators and those accused of infringement. These rules drive up costs to defendants and work to increase settlement pressure untethered to the merits of a particular claim for patent infringement." and "These rules, although facially neutral, give significant advantages to patent owners with minimal assets, dubious patents or infringement claims, or a goal of extracting undeserved settlements."
If you want to know why the media coverage of current US presidential debates is skewed, including with biased presenters, it's because MSNBC, CNN, and other Media companies are the largest donors to Clinton's and Rubio's campaigns.
This is apparently not only the "polite way" of bribing politicians for more Imaginary Property Rights (which Hillary has been a huge supporter of increasing), but also the way media avoids full disclosure while biasing the elections of "free" nations.