Shopify and Patent Plaintiff Trade Jabs Over Litigation Funding

E-Commerce platform Shopify Inc.'s effort to force the patent-assertion company suing it for patent infringement to reveal its backers met resistance this week.

Lower48 IP LLC in a June 14 filing accused Shopify of engaging in a “publicity stunt launched more than eight months after Lower48 filed this suit.”

Earlier this month Shopify urged a judge in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas to force Lower48 to reveal third parties that might have a stake in the newly formed company’s lawsuit. In support of a motion to compel disclosure, Shopify highlighted documents filed when Lower48 acquired ...