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.

As part of the monetization firm’s end-of-November sprint, apparent IP Edge LLC plaintiff Jade Licensing LLC filed a Western District of Texas suit against Broadcom (Brocade Communications Systems) (6:21-cv-01239) over a single patent originally issuing to Huawei. Jade Licensing accuses Brocade of infringing the optical communications patent through the provision of optical transceiver modules. Its new case follows on the heels of a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation that suggests that another IP Edge plaintiff, well into a larger campaign over another patent acquired from the same source, is on its way to defeating an Alice challenge.