Federal Circuit Denies Mandamus To Patent Holder In Background Check Dispute

( October 29, 2025, 10:09 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 28 denied a patent holder’s petition for a writ of mandamus, leaving in place a California federal judge’s refusal to transfer the case to a federal court in Oklahoma; the panel found no abuse of discretion in the judge’s finding that the delayed nature of the patent holder’s motion to transfer called the motivations for the transfer into question....