Supreme Court Ends Texas’ Grip on Patent Cases

Will this mean that companies will actively avoid establishing offices in states with any courts that favor prosecutors in patent cases?

That in turn creates a motivation for states to make their courts neutral, or favor defendants in patent cases.

So when is Rodney Gilstrap ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/the-year-in-pate... ) going to be investigated for corruption? It seems pretty clear, he passed the law that made it happen, the cases come in front of him.

"where they allegedly infringe the patent and have a regular and established place of business."

So if you are an internet company, add this to your header:

if (ip_address_in_texas) exit;

Otherwise you might still being doing business there?

The article cites number of patent cases taken to court over years. One should note that the damages are geater. When a patent troll was able to stop Microsoft from distributing their office because someone patented a way to save documents in xml and regardless of the final rule or the settlement. The FUD is enough to make many people pay without being sued.

tldr: "...corporate patent defendants can only be sued where they are incorporated or where they allegedly infringe the patent and have a regular and established place of business."

I wonder what the patent-scam scum will pivot to. Probably making sure no one in the Eastern District of Texas maintains a regular business there, then creating new cancerous jurisdictions elsewhere in the USA, perhaps Delaware. That's probably too hard a nut to crack. I think the cancer will metastasize.

I actually understood the article. Great job!