Judge Albright
WACO – Pick a day, go online and scope out Judge Alan Albright’s docket – there’s a good chance nothing but patent infringement cases will fill the screen.
Albright, a former patent attorney who took the bench in 2018, is the only district judge in the Waco division of the Western District of Texas. And in the three years he s been on the bench, his docket has grown to the point where he is presiding over nearly 20 percent of all infringement suits filed in the U.S.
But the city of Austin - also located in the Western District - is ripe with innovators that can be lucrative targets for patent trolls, according to some groups worried that litigation could choke out the blossoming tech hub.
U S Well Services, Inc files suit against Halliburton Company and Cimarex Energy Co for patent infringement
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U S Well Services, Inc files suit against Halliburton Company and Cimarex Energy Co for patent infringement
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Jackson Walker Delivers Complete Defense Jury Verdict for Roku in $228 Million WDTX Patent Trial
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HOUSTON, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ After a four-day in-person trial, Jackson Walker delivered a complete defense jury verdict for Roku, Inc. in what started as a five-patent infringement case brought by ESW Holdings, Inc. The trial, which began on April 5, 2021, was held in the Western District of Texas – Waco Division before U.S. District Judge Alan D. Albright.
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Jackson Walker delivered a complete defense jury verdict for Roku in what started as a five-patent infringement case.
In February 2019, ESW Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Austin-based private equity company ESW Capital, LLC, filed suit against Roku. In its complaint, ESW alleged infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,260,782, 7,430,718, 8,682,945, 9,451,294, and 9,420,349. ESW acquired the patents from Ensequence Inc., which spent nearly 20 years develo