{"id":2048,"date":"2018-05-15T10:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:33:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:33:39","slug":"there-can-be-only-one-district-for-venue-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"There Can Be Only One (District for Venue Purposes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/18-120.Motion_Panel_Order.5-11-2018.1.PDF\">In re Bigcommerce, Inc.<\/a>, [2018-122] (May 15, 2018), the Federal Circuit granted petitions for mandamus, requiring that transfer of cases from the Eastern District of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Circuit held that\u00a0a domestic corporation incorporated in\u00a0a state having multiple judicial districts \u201cresides\u201d for\u00a0purposes of the patent-specific venue statute, 28 U.S.C.\u00a0\u00a7 1400(b), only in the single judicial district within that\u00a0state where it maintains a principal place of business, or\u00a0failing that, the judicial district in which its registered\u00a0office is located.\u00a0 Because the petitioner did not &#8220;reside&#8221; in the Eastern District of Texas under this interpretation, the Federal Circuit granted the petitions for mandamus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In In re Bigcommerce, Inc., [2018-122] (May 15, 2018), the Federal Circuit granted petitions for mandamus, requiring that transfer of cases from the Eastern District of Texas. The Federal Circuit held that\u00a0a domestic corporation incorporated in\u00a0a state having multiple judicial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=2048\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-venue"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}