Among the most recent extraordinary events in the long series unfolding before Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly (recounted in full here) are the answers to questions that the court posed to VLSI Technology LLC and Intel there. The dispute between VLSI and Intel is, of course, wider, playing out in three federal districts: the Western District of Texas, where three jury trials have been held, with differing results; the Northern District of California, where discovery is underway after a long stay to await the outcome of certain PTAB proceedings; and the District of Delaware, where activity has stalled after Judge Connolly began questioning whether VLSI has fully complied with his April 2022 standing orders on disclosure. Judge Connolly set a December 14 hearing to address concerns raised by VLSI’s repeated disclosures, which according to the plaintiff represent the limits of its knowledge concerning its ownership. The court posed four questions to the parties ahead of this week’s hearing—questions that VLSI and Intel have now answered.