Oversight Project files suit to obtain White House records on ParkerVision patent case

The Oversight Project filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of ParkerVision Inc., demanding that the National Archives produce emails and logs documenting visits to ParkerVision’s patent-litigation webpage from an Executive Office of the President IP address, the Justice Department and law firm Covington & Burling. The company alleges that these accesses occurred during its 2011-2014 dispute with Qualcomm over alleged infringement of its patents.

A jury had originally awarded ParkerVision roughly $173 million in 2013, a verdict later overturned by Judge Roy Dalton in 2014. The lawsuit points to a May 2014 fundraiser at Irwin Jacobs’s San Diego home, attended by President Obama, as a possible link to the observed website traffic. The filing notes that the National Archives identified responsive records after a December 2025 request but have not released them after more than six months.