SUPREME COURT WONT ANSWER HTC'S PATENT VENUE QUERY FOR FOREIGN FIRMS

摘要

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to answer electronics firm HTC Corp.'s question over whether a foreign corporation can move a patent infringement suit against it to the home state of that corporation's U.S. headquarters. See HTC Corp. v. 3G Licensing, S.A., 2019 WL 111228 (U.S. 2019). For years a patent plaintiff could sue a foreign defendant in any venue, but Taiwan-based HTC argued that had changed with a recent Supreme Court decision revising venue rules.