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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 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.