Many eyes are on the TC Heartland case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which asks the high court to make a determination about which of two statutes should control venue in patent litigation. On top of that, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Feb. 16 that regardless of what the Supreme Court decides, there will likely need to be “follow-on legislation to prevent future forum-shopping.”
With both the Supreme Court and Congress poised to take up this issue, it’s likely that in-house legal departments will face some changes, patent lawyers say.
