The Patent Platform Turn: How Families Beat Single Cases Funders moved from single patents to families and licensing campaigns, and the strategy is genuinely better than what I bought as a retail investor. But the thing that actually repriced patent assets over the last eighteen months wasn’t strategy at all. It was a screen at […]
The Template Behind the Ban: Tracing HB 105 to Its Source Most of the state litigation-funding bills in this wave descend from one model act adopted by insurance-committee legislators in November 2024. Lay the template beside the statutes and something odd shows up: the document is called a Transparency Act, and transparency is the part […]
The Ban That Wasn’t: Ohio’s New Litigation-Funding Law Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed HB 105 in July and the coverage called it a foreign-funder ban. It isn’t one. It’s a licensing regime for the whole industry with a single real prohibition attached — and that prohibition, a look-through test on where a fund’s capital came […]
The Bank That Isn’t a Bank: Synapse and the FDIC Mirage No bank failed, so deposit insurance never paid a cent — and 100,000+ people still lost access to their money. Here’s what actually went missing, why the compensation arrived as a one-dollar penalty, and why the two rules meant to fix this still don’t […]
The Prohibition Model: North Carolina Bans Litigation Funding North Carolina became the first US state to outlaw third-party litigation funding outright — not disclosure, not a cap, a flat prohibition with $50,000 penalties and treble damages. It passed the House unanimously and the Senate 45-1, which is a strange result for a contested policy fight […]
