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Re:Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fig... by ehsankia on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:42PM (#19230260)
Is there any reason why those judges don't also laugh them away? What do those jurisdictions have to gain? You'd think that tech companies would have stronger lobbying than patent trolls. What incentives do courts have to side with patent trolls?
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Re:Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fig... by gowld on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:58PM (#19230359)
Juries favor trolls because patent trolls bribe Marshall, TX (East Texas district). Maybe judges are also swayed by the bribes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-05-25/the-te...

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Re:Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fig... by SZJX on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:11AM (#19232961)
It's a local industry. They have a whole foodchain based on this and everybody stands to profit. I think in an earlier HN thread somebody also mentioned that in the early 20th century there were also towns that simply rob and kill any passer-by that would lodge in a hotel, with the sheriff etc. all complicit. In a sense this is typically American isn't it. Similar is how some towns would issue tickets for infringements such as jaywalking all the time without any oversight whatsoever.
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Re:Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fig... by mulmen on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:27PM (#19235577)
No, this is not typically American.
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Re:Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fig... by rixrax on Sunday February 24, 2019 @12:35PM (#19239523)
URL: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9UMMq2dz4 (Austin Myers)

URL: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxcc3SM_KA (John Olivier)

Above two YouTube videos I’ve been passing around in regard to sometimes peculiar nature of patents law in US and in particular that of eastern district of TX.

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