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Litigation

Oct. 13, 2007

Patent Cases Are the Family Business

The son of a judge in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas is counsel on the plaintiff’s side in 54 of the Eastern District patent lawsuits filed so far this year, and is doing defense work in four cases, court records show.

By Joe Mullin
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      It's hard to name a big technology company that hasn't been mired in patent litigation in the Eastern District of Texas.
      Many of those lawsuits end up in the Marshall, Texas, courtroom of Judge T. John Ward, who was instrumental in crafting a system so friendly to plaintiffs that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once called it a...

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