How two small Texas towns became the patent-law centre of America

The intellectual-property lawyers who heard his pitch were apparently persuaded. Less than two years after being appointed to the bench, he had nearly 20% of the country’s patent cases, according to Lex Machina, a legal-analytics firm. By 2021, he had 23%. Trial teams of white-shoe attorneys from New York and California, representing clients such as Google and Intel, began streaming into Waco, a city of 140,000 people in central Texas.