AT&T and patent owner Headwater Research told a Texas federal court on Tuesday that they have settled Headwater’s lawsuit accusing the telecom giant of violating its rights in wireless communications technology.<\/p>\n
The companies asked the court to pause the case in light of the settlement before a trial that was set to begin on Thursday, according to an entry on the court’s docket. Spokespeople for AT&T and attorneys for Headwater did not immediately respond to requests for comment and more information. <\/p>\n
Wireless carrier T-Mobile also settled a Headwater lawsuit over related technology on Tuesday, according to a separate court filing. Attorneys and spokespeople for T-Mobile did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Tyler, Texas-based Headwater was founded by scientist and inventor Gregory Raleigh. His company won a $279 million jury verdict against Samsung and a $175 million verdict against Verizon in separate cases over wireless technology in the same Marshall, Texas, court earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Headwater sued AT&T and T-Mobile in 2023, alleging their products infringed patents related to reducing data usage and network congestion. The lawsuits said that both companies copied Headwater’s inventions after Raleigh met with their employees. AT&T and T-Mobile both denied the allegations and argued that the patents were invalid. <\/p>\n
The cases are Headwater Research LLC v. AT&T Inc, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, No. 2:23-cv-00397 and Headwater Research LLC v. T-Mobile US Inc, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, No. 2:23-cv-00379.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AT&T and patent owner Headwater Research told a Texas federal court on Tuesday that they have settled Headwater’s lawsuit accusing the telecom giant of violating its rights in wireless communications technology. The companies asked the court to pause the case in light of the settlement before a trial that was set to begin on Thursday, according to an entry on the court’s docket. Spokespeople for AT&T and attorneys for Headwater did not immediately respond to requests for comment and more information. Wireless carrier T-Mobile also settled a Headwater lawsuit over related technology on Tuesday, according to a separate court filing. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}