Heirs of Davenport v. Labauve

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• concluding that “venue is determined under § 1400(b) by the facts and situation as of the date suit is filed”
• holding that Google’s GGC servers were not regular and established places of business
• holding, because the applicable venue statute used present tense language, “venue facts are to be examined as of the date the suit is filed”
• questioning whether cell phone towers could be a regular and established place of business for wireless phone service providers if Google's servers were to qualify
• rejecting the argument that Google servers in local ISP facilities constituted a regular and established place of business
• “This court concludes that venue is determined under § 1400(b) by the facts and situation as of the date suit is filed. This is the plain reading of § 1400(b), the pertinent provisions of which are written in the present tense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).