Are patent cases more “favorable” to patent claimees in the Tyler area because of stupid jury members?
Where is the lawsuit against any computer company for someone claiming to have patented the use of a keyboard to input data into a computer or other electronic device?
Our patent system is as out-of-wack as our current administration...
Having an out-of-wack administration won't fix it anytime soon.
Stupid juries and favorable judges who push through cases very quickly. A whole patent lawsuit industry has sprung up around there, with a huge number of LLCs incorporated in the area, patents assigned to them, that sue companies. That way if there is only an empty shell company to take the consequences of any losses.
What's surprising about this one is that the plaintiff is a real company.
The first thing we need though is to tighten down venue. Any company can sue any other company that does any business in that district, and that effectively means any company that sells nation-wide. Mirror World has offices in NYC and New Haven CT, and Apple has its headquarters in Cupertino. The law needs to be changed so that one of those places must be the venue for the suit, no more venue shopping, and no incorporating an LLC in TX for the sole purpose of getting the venue there to sue.
I think it's more the local judges that influence this more than the juries. Of course, juries aren't always the best judge of sticky technical details. I'd be really interested though in reading what kind of instructions are given by these judges.