West Texas Sees Patent Filings Plummet After Albright Dethroned

Texas federal courts already have seen patent-related filings plunge by nearly one-fifth as fallout continues from a late-July order that dethroned the nation’s busiest patent judge—and the drop is even sharper among the non-practicing entities known colloquially as “patent trolls.”

More than a month after Chief Judge Orlando L. Garcia’s order in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas spread among its 12 judges the wealth of patent cases that otherwise would have been destined for Judge Alan Albright’s docket, data examined by Bloomberg Law reveal a proactive response by litigants.

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