Google Fails to Get IP Suit Transferred Out of Plaintiff-Friendly East Texas
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will have to fend off a patent infringement lawsuit in East Texas after a federal appeals court refused to reconsider moving the case to another court, reports Bloomberg Law.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Google’s petition to rehear the issue of whether having servers in third-party facilities establishes a regular place of business for the purposes of filing a lawsuit, according to Bloomberg’s Malathi Nayak.
“SEVEN Networks LLC sued Google in for allegedly infringing patents related to data network traffic optimization through servers in East Texas,” Nayak writes. “Google said the case should be transferred because the presence of its servers in the district doesn’t amount to a regular and established place of business under the patent venue statute.”
Read the Bloomberg Law article.
