The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas.
Why is the Eastern District of Texas the venue for so many patent cases?
Often they go to Marshall or two other federal courts in the Eastern District of Texas.
The company last week filed a similar action in federal court for the Eastern District of Texas in Tyler.
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, where Huawei has two subsidiaries, Huawei America and Future Wei.
Right now Judge Michael Schneider, of the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas, is deciding whether to go ahead with a trial currently set for December.
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Turns out it was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, a hotbed for patent trolls who know that they stand a better-than-average chance of winning simply because of where their issues are being taken up.
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In the Southern District of New York (Manhattan) judges used Booker to sentence below range in 41% of all cases, whereas in Arizona, Nevada and the Eastern District of Texas, judges cut defendants a Booker break only 5% of the time.
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Through discovery in the other case, nearly a year after the settlement in Green, counsel learned of documents that were not produced in Green and promptly returned to the Eastern District of Texas with a Motion to Re-Open The Case, which was denied due to the statute of limitations, and a Motion for Sanctions.
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We spoke with Julie Samuels of the EFF, who explained that filing for a declaratory judgment could theoretically enable NYT and OpinionLabs to have trials held in California and Illinois, where the declaratory judgments were filed, instead of the Eastern District of Texas -- the notoriously plaintiff-friendly court where Lodsys filed its suit against seven devs on May 31st.
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About five years ago, the obvious place for patent-holders to sue was a cluster of district court in some tiny, dusty towns in Eastern Texas.
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