Honeywell Patent Suit’s Transfer Out of Texas Ordered by Court

The Federal Circuit ruled that a patent suit against Honeywell International Inc. must play out on the conglomerate’s home turf of North Carolina, reversing a Texas judge who had refused to transfer the case.

Dallas-based Lone Star SCM Systems Ltd.—which the appeals court called an “apparent patent assertion entity"—sued Honeywell in 2021 for alleged infringement of four patents related to radio frequency identification tech used for tracking items. Honeywell asked to have the suit moved to Charlotte, where it’s based, but its request was denied by US District Court for the Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright in ...