Federal Circuit Again Rebuffs Bid to Stop Delaware Funding Probe

The full Federal Circuit refused on Tuesday to rehear a challenge to a Delaware judge’s probe into the financing of patent litigation in his courtroom, after previously refusing to halt the judge’s investigation.

Ten of the court’s 12 judges denied a petition from patent plaintiff Nimitz Technologies LLC to have either a three-judge panel or the full court sitting en banc rehear an earlier Dec. 8, 2022, panel decision.

Tuesday’s order cuts short an effort to stymie US District of Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly’s pursuit of information about funding sources behind a handful of patent infringement litigation campaigns—the ...