Andrews has shown a propensity to Dismiss lawsuits with Prejudice in these patent troll cases.
Plus, the Federal courts have beaten up on the PTAB recently.
Chanbond located in the Eastern District of Texas - where patent trolls were always winning - but the Supreme Court blasted Chanbond in the package:
"the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a pro-business, pro-innovation decision that severely limits the federal district(s) in which a domestic company can be sued for patent infringement. The decision was applauded this week by tech firms, large and small, and is sure to drastically reduce the total number of patent infringement cases filed each year in the U.S. In particular, it should substantially reduce the often-baseless cases filed by entities that buy-up bogus patents and use costly patent litigation, or the threat of costly patent litigation, to bully companies into settlements – often referred to as “patent trolls.”
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