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So technically speaking, moving out of Plano and Frisco and moving to Dallas County will solve their patent troll issue.
Having recently watched The Patent Scam, I wish more companies would follow suit here and exit EDOT, maybe then people would wake up and demand that these corrupt judges are removed from the bench! edit: correction made per child comment.
Federal judges aren't the sort that get voted out. They're appointed for life. The degree and direction of corruption within a judge bear a striking resemblance to the president who appoints them.
I understand that people don't like either "Barack", or "Donald", and others before them, especially calling them by their first name as if they are friends or cousins. But just for fun, let's see if anyone from Belgium, UK, Greece, Spain, etc can name 5 top judges. I, for one, cannot :)
Sidenote: I'm not a US citizen, nor live in the USA.
I couldn't figure out if the first part of the title had anything to do with the latter part of the title. Is Apple closing down its stores because of the recent ruling or was that completely unrelated to why Apple is closing down those stores?
It’s a leap the writer is intending people make, despite the writer not actually knowing the reason.
I couldn't figure out if the first part of the title had anything to do with the latter part of the title. Is Apple closing down its stores because of the recent ruling or was that completely unrelated to why Apple is closing down those stores?
Due to a recent (2017) Supreme Court decision, you can now only file patent suits in a company's home state or in a district where they have a physical presence. So now companies can simply leave the Eastern District of Texas to stop patent trolls from suing them there. Expect to see more companies leaving the Eastern District of Texas.
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Federal judges aren't the sort that get voted out. They're appointed for life. The degree and direction of corruption within a judge bear a striking resemblance to the president who appoints them.
Leaving the political opinions aside (especially since I don't vote in the USA), I believe that USA has one strong/clean/independent Justice system. There is transparency. I don't believe that in many other modern/western countries there is so much attention to the top judges. I understand that people don't like either "Barack", or "Donald", and others before them, especially calling them by their first name as if th…
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That wouldn't be smart, because then they'd still have a physical presence in the district. The sooner they can lock the door and terminate the lease, the sooner they get the benefit of not being located there.
I'm suggesting taping the note to the inside of the door on your way out. I don't think that counts as presence. The locals aren't likely to know why it closed. Seems reasonable to me that they know.
Anyways, I'm sure the reason for their closure will become pretty obvious if other business follow suit.
Having recently watched The Patent Scam, I wish more companies would follow suit here and exit EDOT, maybe then people would wake up and demand that these corrupt judges are removed from the bench! edit: correction made per child comment.
Federal judges are appointed by the President and serve for life. There are possibly corruption problems in the Eastern district of Texas, but the root problems are the patent laws themselves, and its the elected members of congress who can fix that.
Fix the easy problems first, then fix the hard ones.
The only thing that Apple is doing is getting out of Collin County, Texas--by closing Plano and Frisco locations. If you look here: http://www.txed.uscourts.gov/?q=court-locator you'll see that Collin County is in Eastern District of Texas. So technically speaking, moving out of Plano and Frisco and moving to Dallas County will solve their patent troll issue.
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Leaving the political opinions aside (especially since I don't vote in the USA), I believe that USA has one strong/clean/independent Justice system. There is transparency. I don't believe that in many other modern/western countries there is so much attention to the top judges. I understand that people don't like either "Barack", or "Donald", and others before them, especially calling them by their first name as if th…
While this is true, also remember how powerful the US supreme court is. Due to a combination of common law (binding precedent) and an old, difficult to change, ambiguous constitution, the US Supreme Court is arguably even more powerful than the president.
To me, this is an amazing aspect of the American justice system. Nine individuals, chosen over a broad range of years, are the last bastion of hope in keeping the current politics du jour from running amok. Nine individuals who were most likely all not chosen by the same person, have multitudinous alignments and bring their various perspectives to the table. When they come together in agreement, it is undoubtedly just given their diversty over the decades.
Or at least in theory.