Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright has docketed a public version of his order denying to Apple and Qualcomm a convenience transfer to the Northern District of California of a case filed years ago against them by Red Rock Analytics, LLC. Notable aspects of that denial track those from another recent rejection of a convenience transfer, sought by Apple in a Proxense, LLC case, including the court’s use of local defendant offices to mitigate inconvenience for its witnesses and the court’s seeming invitation for a mandamus appeal to sort out whether nonpracticing plaintiffs should continue to be “prejudiced relative to other plaintiffs” when it comes to court congestion.