Bee Trap Patent Fight Returns to Kentucky Where it Started

An Alabama-based inventor will have to go back to a Kentucky court to sue an alleged infringer of his patent for a carpenter bee trap, a federal judge ruled Oct. 16.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama granted Chrisman Mill Farms LLC’s request to transfer the case based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s May ruling in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brands LLC restricting venue in patent litigation (Blazer v. Chrisman Mill Farms LLC, 2017 BL 369792, N.D. Ala., No. 1:17-CV-320-VEH, 10/16/17).

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