Apple, Uniloc Face Tough Patent Venue Queries From Fed. Cir. (1)

Two Federal Circuit judges hammered Apple Inc. and Uniloc with questions at oral argument on Tuesday over whether a patent infringement suit against the tech giant should have been moved out of the Western District of Texas.

Apple filed a petition for mandamus asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas Judge Alan Albright’s decision refusing to send Uniloc 2017 LLC’s patent infringement suit against it to the Northern District of California, which Apple considers a more convenient location.

The Federal Circuit rarely holds arguments on mandamus ...