Lamplight Licensing News Today

Several attorneys associated with patent monetization firm IP Edge are being referred to their state disciplinary bars, the Texas Supreme Court's Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Department of Justice by Judge Colm Connolly.

Lawyers associated with Houston patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC are facing possible ethics inquiries after a judge said they used “shell” companies to obscure involvement in a string of patent lawsuits.

Another IP Edge-linked plaintiff failed to escape its portion of a heated litigation-finance probe, as the chief judge of Delaware’s federal court rejected Lamplight Licensing LLC’s request to set aside his November order to produce certain documents and communications.

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