Google Denied Rehearing in Bid to Transfer Patent Lawsuit (2)

Alphabet Inc.'s Google will have to fend off a patent infringement lawsuit in East Texas after a federal appeals court refused to reconsider moving the case to another court.

A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Feb. 5 denied Google’s petition to rehear whether having servers and technical equipment in third-party facilities establishes a regular place of business for the purposes of filing a lawsuit.

The precedential ruling highlights continuing questions in internet and e-commerce-related lawsuits after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2017 ruling in TC Heartland v. Kraft made it more difficult for patent owners to sue ...