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Deference to District Courts: Federal Circuit’s New Approach to Venue Transfer Petitions

by Dennis Crouch

In a recent order, the Federal Circuit denied Apple’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking yet again to transfer a patent infringement case from the Western District of Texas (Judge Albright) to the Northern District of California. In re Apple Inc., 24-129 (Fed. Cir. 2024).

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