Victory! Judge’s Critical Investigation of Patent Troll Companies Can Move Forward

In recent months, Delaware-based U.S. District Court Judge Colm Connolly started an inquiry into some patent trolling companies that have filed dozens of lawsuits in his court. Last month, lawyers for the patent troll companies appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, seeking to shut down the investigation.

Those events led EFF to file an amicus brief, in which we stood up for the public’s “right … to know who is controlling and benefiting from …

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