N.C. Federal Judge: Demand Letters, Patent License Offers Confer Jurisdiction

(June 19, 2023, 1:08 PM EDT) -- CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A bid by a Texas company, its attorney and others for dismissal of a complaint seeking a declaration of patent invalidity and asserting violations of North Carolina’s patent troll law was denied June 16 by a federal judge in North Carolina, who found that the defendants’ demand letters and offers of a patent license to a North Carolina robotics company is enough to justify the exercise of specific jurisdiction....