Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- a blog post discussing how, in a patent case addressing venue, “the Federal Circuit delved into franchise law — holding that independently owned and operated VW/Hyundai car dealerships located in the W.D. Texas do not count as a ‘place of business’ of the car distributors”; and
- an article analyzing how the Federal Circuit recently “affirm[ed] decisions by [the] International Trade Commission [and] patent board” in cases involving computer-chip patents.
Dennis Crouch authored a blog post for PatentlyO discussing how, in In re Volkswagen Group of America Inc., “the Federal Circuit delved into franchise law — holding that independently owned and operated VW/Hyundai car dealerships located in the W.D. Texas do not count as a “place of business” of the car distributors.” Crouch noted that, “[a]s such, venue [was] improper under 28 U.S.C. 1400(b).”
Blake Brittain filed an article with Reuters analyzing how, in Broadcom Corp. v. International Trade Commission, the “Federal Circuit affirm[ed] decisions by [the] International Trade Commission [and] patent board.” Brittain detailed that “Broadcom Corp on Tuesday lost its combined appeals of U.S. rulings for Toyota Motor Corp, Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp, and others that it had accused of infringing its computer-chip patents.”