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Specific Personal Jurisdiction from NPE Enforcement Effort
Many people think that efforts to enforce a patent in a particular forum, without more, cannot give rise to personal jurisdiction over the patent owner in that forum. If you so thought, you thought wrong. In Xilinx, Inc., v. Papst Licensing GmbH & Co., KG, No. 2015-1919 (Fed. Cir. Feb 15, 2017), the court held that the non-practicing entity patent...