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Federal Circuit Turns Away a Pair of Additional Petitions Arising from Judge Albright’s Courtroom
Patent Litigation Feature
The Federal Circuit has denied two more petitions for writs of mandamus asking the appellate court to order Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright to transfer cases before him elsewhere for convenience. In late January, the Federal Circuit turned away a similar petition from GM in litigation brought by Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV). Thus, as in the IV-GM suit, it looks like the case between Flypsi, Inc. (d/b/a Flyp) and Alphabet (Google) and the case between ViaSat and Western Digital will play out before Judge Albright, whose growing body of convenience transfer rulings—as now left undisturbed multiple times and as considered alongside that court’s solidifying pattern when it comes to claim construction—suggests a significant reason why the venue fight has become such a pivotal event for many cases landing there.
March 11, 2023
ViaSat Opens Up Litigation Targeting Flash Memory Error Correction
New Patent Litigation
ViaSat has filed what appears to be its first affirmative patent litigation in years, accusing Kioxia (6:21-cv-01231) and Western Digital (6:21-cv-01230) of infringing patents generally related to a “flash memory decoder” with an “error detection module” in a pair of Western District of Texas complaints. The plaintiff targets the provision of flash memory products (e.g., flash-based solid state drives) that support error correction coding (ECC) capabilities, pleading that NAND flash is “notoriously error prone” and that “there is substantial value in figuring out how to eliminate or fix flash errors quickly while utilizing as little power as possible”.
November 30, 2021