Meta’s Quest to Move VR-Headset Haptics Suit Fails at Fed. Cir.

A federal appeals court dashed Meta Platforms Inc.‘s efforts to transfer a patent infringement suit targeting its Meta Quest 2 virtual reality headset out of Texas.

Meta’s petition to have the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit transfer Immersion Corp.'s suit against the tech giant to California federal court failed to show that the lower court judge’s venue decision was made “without any basis,” Judge Alan D. Lourie wrote in the panel’s five-page order filed Monday.

Immersion Corp.—an Aventura, Fla., company that holds a large portfolio of haptics patents—has brought suits over them against tech heavyweights including ...