• Patent infringement cases shifting from Texas to Delaware
• Venue strategies more complex in Delaware due to bigger caseloads, delays in time to trial
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San Francisco-based patent attorney Richard Hung never found an easy way to travel to eastern Texas to litigate patent cases.
But like hundreds of patent attorneys across the U.S., he had to. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas was once the most popular venue for patent infringement lawsuits in the country.
A partner at Morrison & Foerster, LLP and co-chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group, Hung would ...