HTC’s Bid to Move Patent Lawsuit Rejected by Appeals Court (1)

Taiwan-based HTC Corp. can be sued in any U.S. federal court for venue purposes because it’s a foreign entity.

HTC Corp. must now face Orange SA’s patent infringement lawsuit in Delaware, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on May 9 rejected the mobile phone maker’s request to move or dismiss the case.

The decision clarifies the law on where foreign companies can be sued for patent infringement. The U.S. Supreme Court’s May 2017 decision in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods limited the venues where domestic defendants can be sued, but foreign defendants aren’t under the same ...