Albright Hands Over Austin Patent Cases After Moves From Waco (1)

A West Texas federal judge has passed several patent cases to his colleagues in Austin, after initially continuing to oversee the cases after transferring them from his Waco courtroom.

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has transferred dozens of patent suits from Waco to Austin in recent years after the parties agreed, or the judge found, that Austin would be a more convenient place to litigate.

Albright’s practice was to continue overseeing a case following an intradistrict transfer. But he cleared from his docket Nov. 12 several pending cases, handing ...