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Leveling the Innovation Landscape
WELCOME TO MARSHALL, Texas, population 24,089.1 Marshall, located near the Louisiana border in east Texas, along with nearby Tyler and Texarkana, has emerged in the past fifteen years as the patent litigation capital of the world. Yes, the city is the home of the annual Fire Ant Festival and the Stagecoach Days Festival, but is far from any major business center, much less any technology hub. Yet in 2008, 30 percent more patent cases were filed in east Texas than in the next busiest federal district (northern California).2
Marshall offers a combination that patent holders find irresistible: juries that are sympathetic and generous to plaintiffs and supportive judges. Fifty years ago, it was rare for a patent ...
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