WacoWatch

Defendant Tableau Software, LLC (Tableau) filed an opposed motion to transfer venue to the Northern District of California. On May 21, 2024, Judge Pitman granted Tableau’s motion and transferred the proceeding between Tableau and iCharts LLC.

On November 6, 2023, Judge Albright denied Defendants Amazon Services LLC and eero LLC’s Motion to Dismiss for Improper Venue and to Transfer Venue to the Northern District of California.

On May 26, 2023, Judge Albright granted Defendant Adobe Inc.’s (Adobe) motion to transfer venue to the Northern District of California (NDCA).

On February 2, 2022, Zentian filed a complaint against Apple alleging infringement of four patents directed to improving the performance and efficiency of speech recognition on-device systems, including in the areas of parallel processing and circuit configurations.

Topia Tech, Inc. v. Dropbox Inc., et al., No. W-21-CV-01373-ADA, is a case brought by Topia, alleging that Dropbox infringes several patents related to sharing electronic files between multiple devices.

Defendants Kioxia Corporation (“KIC”) and Kioxia America (“KAI”) (collectively, “Kioxia”) filed a motion to transfer venue to the Northern District of California (“NDCA”) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a).

In orders ruling on two motions to transfer venue to the Northern District of California (N.D. Cal.) in related cases, Judge Albright granted transfer to Defendant Google LLC and denied transfer to Defendant Vivint, Inc.

On April 20, 2022, Judge Albright granted Defendant Microsoft Corporation’s (Microsoft) Motion to Transfer Venue to the Western District of Washington (WDWA) finding Microsoft met its burden that transfer is clearly more convenient. 

On March 25, 2022, Judge Albright granted Defendant Meraki Integrated Circuit (Shenzhen) Technology, Ltd.’s (“Meraki”) opposed motion for reconsideration and severed Defendant Meraki and granted its transfer motion to the Northern District of California (“NDCA”).

Plaintiffs Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. and Chengdu Monolithic Power Systems Co., Ltd. (together, “MPS”) filed this action against Defendant Meraki, alleging patent infringement (“Patent Claims”) along with claims of trade secret misappropriation, tortious interference, and unfair competition (“Non-Patent Claims”). Also, MPS filed a lawsuit in the NDCA against Defendant Meraki’s founders in their individual capacities.

On March 9, 2022, several months after accessiBe Ltd. (“accessiBe”) was denied transfer in AudioEye, Inc. v. accessiBe Ltd., Judge Albright reversed his decision on reconsideration. The case will proceed in the Western District of New York (“WDNY”).

On March 1, 2022, Judge Albright denied Defendant Apple, Inc.’s (“Apple”) Motion to Transfer Venue to the Northern District of California (“NDCA”), “alleging that it is more convenient than this District.” Plaintiff BillJCo, LLC (“BillJCo”) did not contest that this action could have been brought in the NDCA.

On March 1, 2022, Judge Albright granted Defendant eClinicalWorks, LLC’s (“eClinical”) Motion to Transfer Venue to the District of Massachusetts. eClinical did not argue that the Western District of Texas, Waco Division (“WDTX”) was an improper venue, but rather that the District of Massachusetts “is simply a more convenient forum.”

Judge Albright granted Defendants’ Motion to Transfer to the Austin Division of the Western District of Texas in Express Mobile, Inc. v. Expedia, Inc., HomeAway.com, Inc., No. W-20-CV-00801-ADA (December 15, 2021, Order Granting Defendants’ Motion to Transfer).

Less than a month after denying Alfresco Software, Ltd.’s motion for transfer of venue under 28 U.S.C. 1404(a) in Open Text Corp. v. Alfresco Software, Ltd., Judge Albright reversed his own order in light of In re Juniper Networks, Inc., 14 F.4th 1313 (Fed. Cir. 2021). The case has now been transferred to the Central District of California (CDCA).

Judge Albright denies transfer despite pending case in NDCA with some overlapping issues.

On July 1, 2021, in two separate rulings, Judge Albright denied defendants Samsung’s and Intel’s Motions to Transfer Venue to the NDCA.

It’s moving day again, with the Federal Circuit directing Judge Albright (Waco) to transfer a patent case against Hulu to the Central District of California. 

On July 8, 2021, the Federal Circuit granted a mandamus challenge and ordered Judge Albright to transfer the patent litigation by Ikorongo Technology against defendant Uber Technologies, Inc., from the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a).

On June 22, 2021, the court granted the defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for Improper Venue in Koss Corp. v. PEAG LLC DBA JLAB Audio, Case No. 6:20-cv-00662-ADA.

On June 30, 2021, the Federal Circuit granted a mandamus challenge and directed Judge Albright to transfer a pair of cases against Samsung and LG defendants from West Texas to Northern California.