Justinian Lane
Question: When do corporations love "Judicial Hellholes"?
When they need to file a lawsuit against a competitor!
Sony is finding itself in another court battle over patents, as Canadian digital security firm Certicom this week filed suit against the company and a handful of its subsidiaries, alleging infringements on patents it holds for elliptic curve cryptography...
Certicom filed the suit in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, although none of the involved companies are based there. The American Tort Reform Association named Marshall, Texas, in its “Judicial Hellholes 2006” report, saying that plaintiffs in patent litigation win their cases 78 percent of the time there, as opposed to 59 percent nationwide. In a conference call with investors, Certicom president and CEO Bernard Crotty explained, “This district has acquired substantial expertise in this type of litigation, and has a history of proceeding to trial in a timely manner.”
Source: BLOG FOR VIDEOGAMES.COM » Blog Archive » Sony faces digital security patent suit
I'll be curious to see if the American Tort Reform Association decides to criticize a corporation for filing a case in Marshall. Or is it only wrong to sue in Marshall if you suffered a serious personal injury?
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Huh? Nearly every patent case filed in Marshall, Texas, is filed by a corporation. ATRA knew this when it published its report.
Posted by: Ted | June 3, 2007 5:01 PM
ATRA carefully worded their critique to be against “entrepreneurial lawyers” and the juries – not the companies who hire the lawyers. They also pointed out that many patent attorneys used to do P.I. work and have now moved into patent work. Should P.I. lawyers just shoot themselves?
Posted by: Justinian Lane | June 3, 2007 5:24 PM