Legal Opinion
TomTom, Inc. v. AOT Systems GmbH
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided September 14, 2012No. Case No. 1:12cv528PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.
This patent declaratory judgment action presents the unusual question whether personal jurisdiction over a foreign company with no contacts with the United States *787is proper under 35 U.S.C. § 293 where, as here, plaintiff, the putative infringer alleges that the foreign company previously threatened to sue plaintiff for infringement of the American patent in issue, but the foreign company now, by affidavit, denies that it is either the patentee or an assignee of this patent. For the reasons that follow, personal jurisdiction over the foreign entity in the…
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