ViaSat officially served Space Systems/Loral Tuesday with a patent infringement...
ViaSat officially served Space Systems/Loral Tuesday with a patent infringement complaint, ViaSat said. It filed a patent infringement and breach of contract suit against SS/L earlier this month in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (CD Feb…
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6 p4), but hadn’t served the satellite manufacturer with the compliant. The two companies entered settlement discussions following the filing this month, but the talks apparently fell apart. “We believe our complaint clearly establishes our position regarding ownership of the underlying intellectual property as well as SS/L’s infringement of our patents and its breach of contract,” ViaSat President Rick Baldridge said. “We have been clear with SS/L that any settlement discussions would need to progress expeditiously given the high stakes involved and the fact that we put SS/L on notice of these issues long ago. Unfortunately, those discussions didn’t progress at all, so we are moving forward with the litigation.” SS/L President John Celli responded to the suit Tuesday following a speech at the Washington Space Business Roundtable. “We've always dealt with our customers with integrity and protected their” intellectual property, he said. “We've got a lot of lawyers” looking at the patent issue, he said. So far, the suit doesn’t seem to have had a material impact on business, Celli said, noting the week after the suit was filed SS/L received two satellite contracts from the Australian government.