Abstract. The purpose of the present paper is to study the sequence of hypergeometric polynomials {Bn^}n^o defined by B%'P(x) = liM-n; 1 + a, 1 + /Jjx), where a, /3 g -N* , which are (with the change of notations u = a, v + u/2 = /3) related to the Bateman's function J% ,v . We show that it constitutes a two-parameter family of 2-orthogonal classical polynomials of Laguerre type. Among other things, we give their recurrence relation and the third order differential equation satisfied by each polynomial. When a ^ /3 > -1, we obtain that these polynomials are 2-orthogonal on the interval (0,-|-oo) with respect to a pair of weight functions W a>^ and (xWa^Y, where W a> /3 is a positive function involving the MacDonald function Ku (v = a-ft). For a suitable choice of the parameters a and /?, we obtain that Wa,p is the ultra-exponential function introduced by Voronoi and then encounter an open problem posed by Prudnikov for which we give an answer. In addition, we obtain by means of the technique of cubic decomposition that the polynomials in question are connected to another kind of 2-orthogonal polynomials of Hermite type.