New Texas Patent-Case Assignment Order Targets ‘Related’ Cases (1)

May 31, 2024, 4:43 PM UTCUpdated: May 31, 2024, 11:00 PM UTC

Patent cases filed in the Waco Division of the Western District of Texas will be randomly assigned among a dozen judges in the district under a new order to challenge plaintiffs seeking to try cases in Judge Alan Albright’s popular courtroom.

Those seeking to move their related cases to Albright’s one-judge Waco Division after being assigned to another judge will have to convince the assigned judge with “sufficient legal and factual justification,” Chief Judge Alia Moses said in a Thursday order.

Albright has received almost a third of the nearly 500 patent suits filed in the Western District in ...

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