IP Edge-Linked Companies Decry Intel’s Defense of Judge’s Probe

A lawyer representing two plaintiffs among several whose patent-litigation campaigns are subjects of a judicial investigation ripped arguments made by Intel Corp. and the US Chamber of Commerce in defense of a Delaware chief judge’s authority to seek who’s really behind a spate of suits in his court.

The friend-of-the-court briefs, which were filed in response to Federal Circuit challenges of the probe by Creekview IP LLC and Waverly Licensing LLC, “wield the court’s inherent powers as a justification to craft any procedures governing the litigation before it,” according to Creekview’s reply in further support of its petition, filed Tuesday ...