What factors help decisions with transfer of venue in litigation cases?

IP Litigation
Written By Klemchuk LLP

Google and Apple both ultimately won in their efforts to have their respective cases transferred from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California based on the Federal Circuit finding:

  • That the Northern District of California would be more convenient for Google and Apple;

  • That the Western District of Texas had erred in giving significantly more weight to the reasoning that the Western District would get the cases to trial more rapidly; and

  • That the location of the Northern District of California would make it easier to produce potential witnesses and evidence.

Read about how the Federal Circuit ordered Judge Albright to transfer venue in cases he denied based on time to trial.

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