Ruling Shoots Down IP Rocket Docket Oct 14, 2008
Companies being sued for patent infringement just got a get-out-of-the-Eastern-District-of-T... card, thanks to an en banc ruling from the 5th Circuit ... Although the case -- a family suing over design defects in the Volkswagen Golf after a fatal accident on a Dallas freeway -- has nothing to do with patent law, the circuit's decision will have big implications for the flood of patent infringement lawsuits regularly filed in what has come to be known as the country's... (Law.com)