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16 May 2018Patents

Federal Circuit vacates Gilstrap’s decisions on patent venue

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has concluded that when a domestic company is incorporated in a state with multiple judicial districts, only one of them is the proper venue for a patent infringement claim.

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