A String of Victories for Headwater
The Verizon verdict isn’t Headwater’s only recent win. In April, another Texas jury awarded the company $279 million from Samsung for infringing two different patents related to mobile devices and smart TVs. However, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board later invalidated one of those patents as “obvious.”
The patents central to the AT&T and T-Mobile disputes are U.S. Patent Nos. 8,924,543; 9,198,042; 8,589,541; and 9,215,613.
Legal Heavyweights on All Sides
Headwater’s legal arsenal came from Russ August & Kabat, including Marc Fenster, Adam Hoffman, Benjamin Wang, and others.
T-Mobile’s defense was mounted by attorneys from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Hogan Lovells US LLP, while AT&T leaned on the powerhouse team from McKool Smith PC.
With trials now off the docket, the legal storm subsides—for now—but in the world of high-tech patents, calm rarely lasts long.
