James Q. Horne, Jr. v. Adolph Coors Company R. S. Woods, Inc. And Kingston Wine and Liquor Shop, Inc

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• holding that the “fictional situs” of the harm caused by trade secret misappropriation is what determines the governing law, where the “fictional situs” is the residence of the trade secret owner
• observing that “in declaratory judgment suits for patent invalidity or non-infringement the general venue provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1391, applies, rather than 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b).”
• in patent case only constitutional limit on exercise of personal jurisdiction is fairness to defendant required by Fifth Amendment due process
• notions of fair play not offended where patent owner is resident of forum state
• patent is property interest created by federal law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).