Last week, RPX raised the possibility of IP Edge LLC’s practices—specifically, the naming of Texas residents with seemingly no discernible connections to patent monetization as managers or managing members of most of its LLCs—sliding under the judicial microscope. On September 12, District of Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly ordered a handful of such individuals to appear, in person, at evidentiary hearings to determine whether a group of apparent IP Edge plaintiffs has complied with his standing order regarding the disclosure of any third-party litigation funding. A similar order has been issued in multiple cases associated with Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), Judge Connolly setting an October hearing to determine the accuracy of those plaintiffs’ amended corporate disclosure statements. Perhaps unsurprisingly, voluntary dismissals have been noticed across these cases, ending the court’s jurisdiction over the matters.

Evidence of IP Edge LLC’s frequent practice of naming individuals—seemingly with no discernible connections to patent monetization—as managers or managing members of its various LLCs has long been reported by RPX. Now, with Amazon having recently brought that practice to the attention of Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly, and with a raft of amended disclosures filed on the same day last week by a handful of apparent IP Edge plaintiffs litigating before that same judge, the coming months may see the full extent of that setup, and its bearing on standing, come to light.

At the end of last month, Copperfield Licensing LLC fired off four separate suits, each asserting a different former Cypress Semiconductor patent that Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC received from Monterey Research, LLC in November of last year. Copperfield hit Applied Materials (1:21-cv-01399) and Bruker (1:21-cv-01398) in the District of Delaware, as well as KLA (6:21-cv-01012) and MKS Instruments (6:21-cv-01013) in the Western District of Texas. Concurrently, Burbank Technologies LLC, another IP Edge plaintiff, kicked off litigation of another former Cypress patent, suing CenTrak (1:21-cv-01391) and Phyton (1:21-cv-01392) in Delaware.