Federal Circuit Upholds Claim Preclusion Ruling In Patent Dispute

Mealey's (October 10, 2019, 10:03 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in Texas did not err in denying an inventor’s motion to transfer his patent infringement case against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to California or in deeming the dispute precluded in view of a previously filed lawsuit, a per curiam panel of the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Oct. 9 (Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., No. 19-1726, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 30232)....