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A Federal Circuit panel signaled it’s unlikely to overturn a district judge’s sanctions against a patent-infringement plaintiff who refused to travel to testify as part of a probe into litigation financing in his court.

A federal judge in Delaware defended his authority to compel live testimony from the owner of a company with ties to prolific patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC.

A Delaware federal judge on Monday held the owner of Texas-based Backertop Licensing LLC in contempt for failing to comply with repeated orders that she appear and answer questions about possible "fraud on the court" in her company's infringement cases, finding no good reason for her refusal to show up.

The federal judge spearheading a contentious litigation-funding investigation held in contempt the owner of patent holding firm Backertop Licensing LLC for repeatedly failing to appear as ordered and refusing to participate in courtroom hearings.

The owner of an IP Edge-linked patent holding company said she won’t attend a July hearing in Delaware where a federal judge is seeking to assess her credibility as part of a heated litigation-funding investigation.

This article originally ran in Law360 on February 10, 2023. All rights reserved.  Patent litigation brought by nonpracticing entities, or NPEs, has seen exponential growth. These cases...

The Federal Circuit ruled that both requests are premature, indicating that the mandamus threshold that it had just laid out "has not been met".

Backertop Licensing LLC, a plaintiff apparently associated with Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC, has filed its first litigation, suing Assa Abloy (August Home) ( 1:22-cv-00573), Hampton Products ( 1:22-cv-00574)...