Personal jurisdiction is one of those basic concepts in civil procedure that evokes strong memories in most lawyers, of their first year in law school, cases like International Shoe,.
A patentee may establish "minimum contacts" in a forum, thus subjecting itself to specific personal jurisdiction, by sending a cease and desist letter to the forum.
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For more than two decades, the Federal Circuit has held that correspondence alone from a patentee to a possible infringer would not subject it to personal jurisdiction in any.
Federal Circuit for Trimble, Inc. v. PerDiemCo LLC rule communications from outside forum can form personal jurisdiction in non-patent contexts, patentees must take care in correspondence with potential infringers run risk of personal jurisdiction where none existed.