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Backertop Licensing LLC v. August Home, Inc.

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Case Number:

1:22-cv-00573

Court:

Delaware

Nature of Suit:

Patent

Judge:

Colm F. Connolly

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  1. September 25, 2024

    Judge Connolly Sticks By Fining Paralegal Patent Owner

    Delaware's top federal judge won't budge on ordering a Texas paralegal to pony up $53,000 for refusing to appear for months to answer questions about a patent litigation outfit that was registered to her name, after he grilled her lawyer over who he was representing at a hearing she did show up to last week. 

  2. October 03, 2023

    Del. Judge Won't Stay Fines Against Widowed Patent Biz Owner

    Delaware's top federal judge on Tuesday refused a request to hold off on a $200-per-day fine against a recently widowed Texas paralegal who doesn't want to fly to Wilmington to answer any more questions in patent infringement litigation, saying it was unlikely the Federal Circuit would do anything to strip his authority to order owners of patent companies to testify in front of him.

  3. August 21, 2023

    Texas IP Owner Held In Contempt For Refusing To Appear

    A Delaware federal judge on Monday held the owner of Texas-based Backertop Licensing LLC in contempt for failing to comply with repeated orders that she appear and answer questions about possible "fraud on the court" in her company's infringement cases, finding no good reason for her refusal to show up.

  4. August 01, 2023

    Judge Connolly Weighs Contempt After IP Owners' No-Show

    A Delaware federal judge who repeatedly ordered two Texas-based patent owners to appear in person to answer his questions about possible "fraud on the court" adjourned a contempt hearing within 10 minutes Tuesday after neither party showed up.

  5. July 28, 2023

    Patent Cos. Owners Gripe That Connolly Isn't Being Very Fair

    The named owners of two companies that file patent lawsuits say they won't show up to a contempt hearing on Tuesday in front of the top judge in Delaware federal court, who they are now asking to stand down from his investigation into who is funding their operations, complaining on Friday that "no one could see this and consider it to be a fair hearing."

  6. July 20, 2023

    Del. Judge Asks Why Patent Biz Owners Won't Show In Court

    A federal judge in Delaware moved the stakes up a notch Thursday in a monthslong dispute over concerns that two patent enforcement company owners with cases before him are defrauding the court and refusing to appear, setting a "show cause" contempt hearing for Aug. 1.

  7. July 19, 2023

    5 Patent Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2023

    The Federal Circuit will be reviewing its first en banc patent case since 2018, while the court's members are being sued by its longest-serving judge, who claims that an attempt to oust her is unconstitutional. Here's what you need to know about these and other high-profile patent cases.

  8. July 13, 2023

    Connolly Funding Probe Targets 'Decline To Participate'

    A Texas limited liability company that ended up under judicial scrutiny after it sued several companies in Delaware for patent infringement has objected to what it calls "the Judicial Inquisition initiated and conducted by the Court" and says it will no longer participate.

  9. July 10, 2023

    Del. Judge Slams Patent Biz Owner's Bid For Remote Hearing

    A Delaware federal judge is demanding a patent business owner appear in court next week amid an ongoing probe into potential fraud, saying his staff's online research shows that travel to the First State will not cause "a substantial financial hardship."

  10. June 08, 2023

    Judge Connolly Demands More Info In Patent 'Fraud' Probe

    A Delaware federal judge with a standing order that patent litigants disclose their third-party funding refused Thursday to let two attorneys sever their relationship with a plaintiff that came under the court's scrutiny, instead ordering both to cough up more information about their client and its business.