{"id":24405,"date":"2019-02-22T16:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24405"},"modified":"2019-02-26T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:43:59","slug":"apple-closing-stores-because-of-patent-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/apple-closing-stores-because-of-patent-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Closing Stores Because of Patent Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/02\/22\/apple-closing-stores-in-eastern-district-texas\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/02\/22\/apple-closing-stores-in-eastern-district-texas\/\"><p>Apple plans to close both of its retail stores within the Eastern District of Texas in a few months from now in an effort to protect itself from patent trolls, according to five sources familiar with the matter.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The plans are significant, as U.S. law states that patent infringement lawsuits may be filed &ldquo;where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business.&rdquo; By closing its stores in Eastern Texas, Apple is ending its established place of business in the district.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern District of Texas has been a hotbed for patent litigation over the past few decades[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this a brilliant legal hack? A sign of a system so broken that even a company with Apple&rsquo;s resources would rather inconvenience customers than try to defend itself? Note that at the <em>country level<\/em>, Apple has chosen to play ball in legal environments that it doesn&rsquo;t like, but those have threatened its customers rather than Apple itself.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"apple-closing-stores-because-of-patent-trolls-update-2019-02-26\">Update (2019-02-26): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=19226355\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: Apple plans to close both of its retail stores within the Eastern District of Texas in a few months from now in an effort to protect itself from patent trolls, according to five sources familiar with the matter.[&#8230;]The plans are significant, as U.S. law states that patent infringement lawsuits may be filed &ldquo;where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-02-22T21:18:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"71b7b76d-875c-4495-8605-9ade8a47cff8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-02-26T20:44:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Acbe3bYdcRJWGBZreikfP-A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,58,209,40],"class_list":["post-24405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-appleretailstores","tag-legal","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24416,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405\/revisions\/24416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}