A federal judicial panel could take up at least three motions to coordinate patent infringement cases involving nonpracticing entities into multidistrict litigation, all brought in the wake of a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that shifted the venue rules for such cases.

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation is set to hear the first of the motions next week at a hearing in Atlanta. Uniloc USA Inc. brought the motion last month to coordinate 25 patent infringement lawsuits against companies such as Apple and Motorola over seven patents it acquired from Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017. Defendants have filed a unified response, accusing Uniloc of forum shopping after a federal judge transferred several of its cases to California under the Supreme Court’s TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods decision, which made it harder to bring patent infringement lawsuits in the Eastern District of Texas.

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