In recent months, RPX has flagged various approaches that patent litigants are taking to avoid the heightened corporate and third-party funding disclosure requirements in Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly’s courtroom. As shown by his stay in early August of a case filed by VLSI Technology LLC against Intel, and his more recent stay of an IP Edge LLC case against Amazon, parties attempting to circumvent Judge Connolly’s new standing orders should expect to face consequences.

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.