Netflix Urges Court to Hold Litigation Funder in Contempt (2)

Netflix Corp. is seeking sanctions against a Northern Virginia litigation funder, the latest escalation in the streamer’s three-plus-year battle over what it describes as a frivolous patent litigation campaign.

Netflix said patent litigation funder AiPi LLC failed to comply with a subpoena seeking information about its connection to a 2021 patent-infringement suit by Lauri Valjakka, defying a federal judge’s ruling a month earlier, in a scathing motion filed Jan. 17 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

The 20 documents AiPi did turn over contain evidence that “AiPi has engaged in nationwide litigation misconduct” that includes ...