In April 2022, District of Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly posted standing orders requiring certain litigants in his courtroom to provide heightened disclosure about their ownership. A declaratory judgment action filed late last year in Delaware against Bell Semiconductor, LLC (Bell Semic) by design tool providers Cadence and Synopsys was assigned to Judge Connolly, who held a late-April hearing to address other matters but ordered the parties to update their disclosures to comply with his standing orders by May 5. Bell Semic did so, laying out what it knows of its family tree after “obtain[ing] all [the] information that its best efforts can provide”. While since then the docket has been anything but quiet, as a general matter (the parties’ having filed notices of the service of roughly 30 third-party subpoenas, among other things), the docket has been quiet concerning Bell Semic’s May 5 disclosure—perhaps suggesting what compliance by parties with complicated ownership structures might look like.
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