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Comment by chmullig | Hacker News Reader

God damn it, eastern district of Texas. Please stop ruining America.

Holy crap: correct me if I'm wrong, but 6000 nationwide patent cases in one year, and one judge had 900 cases in his court, meaning that one judge was responsible for 15 percent of this entire country's patent cases.

I hope I screwed that up somehow because that is insane.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/the-year-in-paten...

You hear a lot of complaints about the glacial pace of the courts, but is this guy really deciding 2.5 cases a day? Maybe he could stand to go slower.

Closer to 3.5, unless the courts work weekends in the USA.

I really don't think Texas is the root problem here. They would just move the cases to whatever the 2nd least crowded district is.

On the plus side, they might end up saving us time on reading. I think everyone on this site could tell where the article was going after the first five words.

This is probably the simplest way to demonstrate Texas needs more money for its school system.

It's a federal court...

It was a jury trial.

So? Federal judges and juries in the eastern district of Texas are from the eastern district of Texas. They don't commute from magic federal land every day. They attended the same schools everyone else did.

5 judges on the Eastern District are not from the Eastern district. They are presidentially appointed, and did not attend the schools that everyone else did in many if not most cases.

You are correct about the juries.

... and the title starts with "Jury finds".

Which is kind of my initial point.

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