Coretronic’s Transfer Bid Sinks in Maxell Projector Patent Suit

Taiwanese manufacturer Coretronic Corp. failed to persuade a Texas federal judge Maxell Ltd’s projector patent infringement lawsuit was better suited to a California court.

Coretronic and its Optoma Corp. unit’s arguments didn’t meet the standards to justify transferring to the Golden State, according to an order filed March 26 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Coretronic and Optoma’s clearest argument—that California was a shorter plane ride for two witnesses than traveling to Marshall, Texas—"is not sufficient to conclude that transferring the case would be clearly more convenient to the parties,” Magistrate Judge J. Boone Baxter ...