Editor’s note: On March 21, Texas Lawyer gathered two of the nation’s busiest patent jurists, Chief Judge Leonard Davis and U.S. Magistrate Judge John D. Love of the Eastern District of Texas in Tyler, along with U.S. District Judges David Godbey and Ed Kinkeade of the Northern District of Texas in Dallas, who are part of a pilot program that funnels patent suits to specific judges inside their jurisdictions, to talk about patent practice. The editorial department held the roundtable on March 21 at the Belo Mansion & Pavilion in Dallas.
The judges discussed how the America Invents Act of 2011 affects their dockets; how the district courts use magistrate judges in patent cases; and how venue fights are handled.
