Albright Spars With Lawyers Over Recusal in IBM’s Patent Lawsuit

Judge Alan D. Albright had sharp words Thursday for lawyers for a Swiss tech company who filed a motion to have the West Texas jurist disqualified from a patent infringement case filed by International Business Machines Corp.

IBM sued LzLabs GmbH in March 2022, accusing it of ripping off IBM’s mainframe system software and using the information it obtained to poach customers. The tech giant alleged LzLabs infringed five patents, stole trade secrets, and engaged in false advertising.

LzLabs and co-defendant Texas Wormhole LLC filed their disqualification motion on Jan. 17, saying Albright must relinquish the case because of past ...