When T. John Ward set up his legendary “rocket docket” while serving as U.S. District Judge in Marshall, he turned the Eastern District of Texas into the nation’s leading venue for high-stakes patent litigation.

“I’ve been credited with having the insight in building that docket. But that’s not the way it happened,” said Ward, who served on the bench from 1999 until his retirement in 2011.

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