Venue Determined When Cause of Action Accrued, Not Complaint Filing Date

The magistrate judge recommended denying defendant's motion to transfer for improper venue because defendant had a regular and established place of business in the district through two offices that closed before plaintiff filed suit and one office acquired a year after plaintiff filed suit. "⁠[A]pplication of the rule proposed in [Personal Audio, LLC v. Google, Inc. (E.D. Tex. Dec. 1, 2017)] -- using the exact date of the filing of the Complaint -- is too rigid. No one disputes that the causes of action accrued while [defendant] had at least one office in this district, and the undersigned has already found that until [its] closure, such a presence was regular and established. . . . [S]ince [defendant] had a regular and established place of business in this district when the causes of action accrued, and [plaintiff] filed its Complaint within a reasonable time thereafter, the undersigned finds that this element is met as to [defendant]."

ParkerVision, Inc. v. Apple Inc. et al, 3-15-cv-01477 (FLMD January 9, 2018, Order) (Klindt, MJ)