Federal Circuit Again Declines to Nix Patent Suit Funding Probes

The Federal Circuit kept alive a pair of patent litigation funding probes playing out in Delaware federal court, saying that Judge Colm F. Connolly isn’t obligated to end his inquiries even after patent owners Creekview IP LLC and Waverly Licensing LLC sought to dismiss their cases.

It would be too drastic a move at this stage to grant Creekview and Waverly’s requests to end what another targeted plaintiff called Connolly’s “judicial inquisition,” a three-judge panel wrote in two separate orders Wednesday.

“Notably, there is no absolute prohibition on a district court’s addressing collateral issues following a dismissal,” the panel wrote. ...