Legal Opinion
Symbology Innovations, LLC v. Lego Sys., Inc.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided September 28, 2017No. Civil No. 2:17–cv–86PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Arenda L. Wright Allen, United States District Judge
In this patent infringement suit, two corporations hailing from distant states find themselves litigating in the Eastern District of Virginia. This sort of forum shopping in patent litigation has proliferated over the past thirty years. See Daniel Klerman & Greg Reilly, Forum Selling , 89 S. CAL. L. REV. 241, 247-48 (2016). This practice has subjected defendants to litigation in distant forums largely unrelated to the alleged infringement and has given a few federal district courts, including the Eastern District of Virginia, inordinate…
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