Estoppel is a word rarely used by the layman. It is a hothouse flower that seems able to grow only in the rarefied loam of the law, dying quickly when exposed to modern vernacular. \
But it was not always so. Like much legal jargon, it springs from old French, and in particular "estopail" which meant the plug you put in a barrels bunghole to prevent your wine from leaking out.

But I digress.
Today's opinion in Cognipower LLC v. Fantasia Trading LLC, C.A. No. 19-2293-JLH-SRF (D. Del.) dealt with a rather novel estoppel argument I hadn't seen before. The Defendant had filed multiple IPRs on the many asserted …