Uniloc USA, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

SMITH, District Judge.

I have before me a motion to recuse four years into this complicated patent case. The reluctant movants, Uniloc USA, Inc. and Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd. (collectively, “Uniloc”), argue that my association with a supposedly conflicted judicial intern creates the appearance of partiality, and compels my disqualification under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a). Microsoft Corp. (“Microsoft”) opposes the motion. Because I find that the intern in question has no conflict of interest, and because I do not believe that my impartiality might reasonably be questioned,…