Lori Lapray News Today

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 Dallas-area owner of a patent assertion firm asked the Federal Circuit to pause a rolling $200-a-day civil-contempt fine imposed against her after she refused to travel to Delaware to testify before a federal judge.

The recently widowed owner of a patent-holding firm failed to get the federal judge behind a litigation-funding probe to pause a rolling $200 civil-contempt fine—tolled each day his Delaware court is open and she doesn’t appear—because he found the Texas resident isn’t likely to win her appeal.

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.