At the ABA Journal
Supreme Court Report, Mark Walsh gives us a nice analysis of the very important patent case
TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Group Brands
in Supreme Court makes venue shopping harder for patent trolls
.
We already posted at LawPundit
in May about the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)
on the case in question in
U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Reverses Long-Standing Lax Federal Circuit Patent Venue Rule
.
Walsh refers to Stanford Law School
intellectual property expert Professor Mark A. Lemley
, who calls the Heartland decision SCOTUS's " most important patent ruling
" since the Supreme's 2014 decision in the patent eligibility case of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International
("what is patentable subject matter").
Take a look at Supreme Court Reins In Patent Venue
by Dennis Crouch at Patently O
for an interesting United States map of patent venues prior to
TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
. Change was necessary!