Valve Asks to Force Litigious Inventor to Produce Financial Info

May 19, 2025, 9:13 PM UTC

Software company Valve Corp. told a federal judge prolific inventor Leigh Rothschild is refusing to produce financial records for discovery in a dispute concerning an allegedly breached patent licensing agreement.

Miami-based Rothschild and his affiliated companies’ financial information, including how they move money among each other, can help determine whether they brought lawsuits in bad faith, Valve said in a motion to compel filed May 16 in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Valve seeks information on “whether Rothschild, through his patent-holding entities, embarked on a campaign of meritless assertions knowing he was protected behind his ...

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