And did a small defendant wind up being added to the list of those sued in an intellectual-property suit just in order to secure venue in the plaintiff-beloved Eastern District of Texas? [Ars Technica]
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on August 25, 2009
And did a small defendant wind up being added to the list of those sued in an intellectual-property suit just in order to secure venue in the plaintiff-beloved Eastern District of Texas? [Ars Technica]
Tagged as: Eastern District of Texas, patent trolls

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