Filings Drop at Texas Court After Patent Venue Ruling

The busiest U.S. patent court has seen a sharp decline in complaints following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling limiting where infringement suits can be filed.

Only 12 patent complaints were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in the two weeks after the high court’s May 22 ruling in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brands LLC. That’s down 78 percent from the same two-week period a year earlier, according to Bloomberg Law data.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, which is expected to get many of the cases ...