In late March, Eastern District of Virginia Judge M. Hanna Lauck granted a Microsoft motion to transfer the case filed by ThroughPuter, Inc. there, a year ago nearly to the day, to the Western District of Washington. After losing the six-months long fight over that proposed transfer, ThroughPuter has doubled down, filing a new case against Microsoft (2:22-cv-00492) in the Western District of Washington, asserting two more patents from the same large family, both having issued to the plaintiff since it filed the first case last year. Both cases are situated in a central dispute over the early development of modern distributed computing systems.