Federal Circuit OKs Moving Dish Patent Fight to Colo.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit approved moving Broadband iTV's patent litigation against Dish Network from a federal court in Texas to the U.S. District Court in Colorado. In a docket 21-182 order Thursday, Judges Kathleen O'Malley, Jimmie Reyna and Raymond Chen said the Federal Circuit rejected a previous Dish petition for writ of mandamus in August, denying the case's transfer because the appellate court was confident the lower court would reconsider its previous denial of such a transfer. The Federal Circuit said the lower court was wrong in subsequently denying the transfer again because Colorado "is the home of evidence, witnesses, and the conduct giving rise to the action." Dish didn't comment.