Valve Prevails in Washington Jury Trial Against Rothschild

In a case involving a claim under the Washington Patent Troll Prevention Act (PTPA), a Western District of Washington jury has returned a verdict for Valve and against Leigh M. Rothschild, his Patent Asset Management, LLC (PAM), and two of his litigating plaintiffs (Display Technologies, LLC (DT) and Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS)) as well as against counsel Meyler Legal PLLC (and its principal Samuel Meyler). In a pretrial order, District Judge Jamal N. Whitehead ordered defendants’ lead counsel Joseph J. Zito of DNL Zito “to SHOW CAUSE why sanctions should not be imposed under Rule 11” for the appearance of “fabricated case citations, nonexistent quotations, and fake quotes attributed to Valve’s expert reports” within the defendants’ “originally filed Daubert motion”. Rachael Lamkin, an attorney defendant locked in a defamation case with Rothschild in Florida, has already apprised the court there of certain jury instructions from the Valve case concerning undercapitalization and lack of corporate separateness.