Judge Gilstrap Will Preside over Apparently His First Multidistrict Litigation
Last November, Taasera Licensing LLC, a subsidiary of publicly traded Quest Patent Research Corporation (QPRC), filed the first case in its network security campaign, suing Trend Micro in the Eastern District of Texas, where it was assigned to District Judge Rodney Gilstrap. The plaintiff expanded the campaign in the new year, hitting Check Point Software (also in the Eastern District of Texas) and Palo Alto Networks (which litigation landed before too long in the Southern District of New York). Trend Micro, citing an alleged failure to serve, filed a declaratory judgment action against Taasera Licensing in the Northern District of Texas and moved the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to consolidate the campaign in one place, preferably the Northern District of California but alternatively the Southern District of New York. The JPML has spoken, agreeing to centralize the litigation . . . but not to either requested venue.
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