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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.
"Throughout the history of civilized peoples, only the excess born of tyrants and brigands yearned for memory in abundance of 640K" -- Charles, Prince of Wales.
The whole justice system should be shut down. It's pretty redundant anyway since the outcome is given by the amount of money spent.
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Judge Davis retired... No one is hearing patent cases anymore in the Eastern District of Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
With a few seconds editing, this could have been in the summary.
Netcraft confirms that slashdot is now an echo chamber.
What the holy hell does that have to do with any...
Oh, wait. I'm thinking of Nethack. n/m
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"The remote district’s role has only increased since 2011 and the latest data reveals that the Eastern District of Texas is headed to a record year. An astonishing 1,387 patent cases were filed there in the first half of 2015. This was 44.4% of all patent cases nationwide. And almost all of this growth is fueled by patent trolls." ref
"Recent changes to patent law have made it easier to beat patent trolls, but it hasn't made the patent hotspot of East Texas any quieter. In fact, it's been in the news more. Massive numbers of patent troll suits continue to be filed there, and the judge who hears most of them has erected barriers to defendants seeking to have their cases disposed of early. ref
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."
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Where's an echo chamber in nethack?
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Judge Davis retired... No one is hearing patent cases anymore in the Eastern District of Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It doesn't really matter that it was shut down--what matters is that it demonstrates the problem with forum-shopping, which the EFF is trying to prevent.
This is further complicated by the fact that The Federal Circuit *can't* overturn its own earlier decisions easily. The three-judge panel on a particular case has to respect the precedents set by an earlier case. So they may be able to weaken or strengthen a case, but they can't really overturn it. (Otherwise the law would depend entirely on which judges you happen to get.)
They can, but they won't.
Don't forget that the congress critters are slaves of the corporate elite.
I'd buy it for $40,000. I'd fire the whole lot of them and let the community run it up to and including which ads are acceptable. They don't get anything for running it. Once the purchase price is paid off and once the interest that I'd charge (say, 10% total - including any additional fees until it makes a profit) then the community can decide which non-profit gets any additional monies - after an emergency fund is setup and fully funded.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Do you even have 40,000? Don't you live in you mothers basement?
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
This is awesome! Seriously, thanks. I've never had a stalker before. It makes me feel all warm and cozy, like I've done something meaningful.
Anyhow, yes, yes I do have that and no, my mother's dead. If I were to purchase such a thing then I'd even make sure you were still allowed to participate. Even if, for no other reason, it was because of the warm gushy feeling of having a stalker. I don't know why people would complain about them. You're pretty powerless and just tell me that I've managed to do something so meaningful as to piss someone off enough to spend their life (portions of it, at least) on my behalf. Those minutes, hours, and emotions that you give me are mine to do with as I please. I'm not usually one to lord power over another but this is awesome!
"So long and thanks for all the fish."