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EDTexweblog.com has news and summaries of rulings, categorized by judge, from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Posts frequently deal with patent cases.

Author: Author Michael C. Smith is an attorney with the Roth Law Firm in Marshall, Texas, where he specializes in product liability, and complex commercial and patent litigation in federal court.

Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property LawPatent LawProduct Liability LawStatesTexasBusiness Law


Recent Posts from EDTexweblog.com

  • "Honeywell Loses Texas 'Trolling Try'" Article

    Joe Mullin has a good story this week Honeywell Loses Texas "Trolling Try" on the outcome of Honeywell's licensing arm's litigation against eight LCD panel manufacturers in the Eastern District (specifically Judge Davis and Love's…

  • Multitasking in a patent case

    Interesting order today in the LaserDynamics v. Quanta case getting ready to start trial in Judge Ward's court that may say something about bench briefs, or at least the division of labor at trial in…

  • Jury verdict in Centocor v. Abbott

    A Marshall jury in Judge Ward's court rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff Centocor today. The jury sent out five notes before finding that the defendant infringed all four of the asserted claims.…

  • "Fallout From In re TS Tech: Venue Disputes in Texas" - presentation at 2009 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting

    If you were attending the State Bar of Texas' annual meeting in Dallas today, at 9 this morning you could have heard me speaking on the state of patent venue law post-In re TS Tech,…

  • Motion to Transfer Venue from Sherman to California Denied

    Worldpak Intern., LLC v. Diablo Valley Packaging, Inc., 2009 WL 1708080(E.D.Tex. Jun 16, 2009) (NO. 4:08CV469) Judge: Michael Schneider/Amos Mazzant Holding: Motion to Transfer Venue DENIED This is a tortious interference with contract case between…

  • Motion to Dismiss or Transfer for Improper or Inconvenient Venue Denied

    GBS Development, Inc. v. West, 2009 WL 1703217(E.D.Tex. Jun 18, 2009) (NO. CIV A 5:09-CV-39(DF)) Judge: David Folsom Holding: Defendant's Motion to Dismiss for Improper Venue DENIED. This is a securities case in which the…

  • 1901 Harrison County Courthouse in Marshall Rededicated

    After fifteen years working on the project I unfortunately missed the big day Saturday, but it went ahead without me, and the historic Harrison County Courthouse was rededicated Saturday in Marshall. Which means that that…

  • Clawback Effective; Privilege Not Waived

    Datatreasury v. Wells Fargo, et al, No. 2:06cv00072 (June 8, 2009) Judge: David Folsom Holding: Motion to Determine Privilege and Waiver DENIED Plaintiff asked the court to hold that one of the defendant's documents was…

  • Texas Lawyer's "I Like Being A Lawyer" by Susan Fisher

    Texas Lawyer runs a periodic column "I Like Being A Lawyer" where contributors list their top five reasons why they like being a lawyer. This week's contributor was Susan Fisher from SRBPS - Sherman, who…

  • Art at Work: Summer 2009 - Various Artists

    For the summer months, our Art at Work program is featuring a variety of artists with a summer-y motif (Carol Pace tells me) including a lot of, well, sea-ish stuff, like fish hooks, and, uh,…


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