Delaware federal judge Colm Connolly put VLSI Technology’s patent case against Intel on hold last week, citing a failure to provide sufficient information about the company’s investors in accordance with the standing order he issued in April. Connolly said that VLSI’s disclosures gave vague information and improperly redacted details about several entities with a stake in the company.
A New York state court has disbarred the founder of litigation finance firm Cash4Cases, who will be sentenced next month in federal court for his role in a multimillion-dollar securities fraud scheme. Manhattan prosecutors said last year that Jaeson Birnbaum “conned investors through a series of lies about Cash4Cases.” The government alleged he used the company to take cash for himself, despite telling investors he was using funds to back litigants.
A US Magistrate Judge has denied Facebook Inc’s request for litigation funding information in a trade secrets lawsuit being pursued by Neural Magic Inc, an artificial intelligence startup. According to the startup’s filing, Facebook and a former employee sought information on the litigation funder’s identity and the nature of the funding agreement. The judge found the requested information irrelevant or “not proportional to the needs of the case.”
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