IP Edge-Linked Patent Owner Takes on Delaware Judge at Fed. Cir.

A Texas woman and her patent holding company challenged the authority of federal Judge Colm F. Connolly to force her to appear and testify at a Delaware hearing as part of his investigation into a handful of companies with ties to prolific patent monetization firm, IP Edge LLC.

Lori LaPray owns Backertop Licensing LLC, one of many Texas limited liability corporations that Connolly has called “shell companies” and that he says are used by Houston-based IP Edge to conceal the true beneficiaries of its patent lawsuit campaigns. She said an order from Connolly, the chief judge for the US District ...