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16 November 2017Patents

Federal Circuit confirms TC Heartland changed the law

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday confirmed that the US Supreme Court’s decision which tightened the rules on patent venue has changed the law and that the ruling applies to existing cases as well as new ones.

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