AT&T must pay $27.5 million in damages to Two-Way Media...
AT&T must pay $27.5 million in damages to Two-Way Media for infringing on Two-Way’s multimedia streaming patents, a federal jury in Dallas said Thursday. The jury found AT&T’s U-verse TV service had violated two Two-Way-owned patents on digital live-streaming technology…
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and data usage recording. The jury did not find there was infringement related to a third patent Two-Way Media claimed in the lawsuit. AT&T failed to convince the jury that the other two Two-Way Media patents were invalid. Two-Way originally sued AT&T, Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks in 2008; Akamai and Limelight previously settled with Two-Way Media, according to Susman Godfrey, the law firm that represented Two-Way. “This was a very hard-fought case, and we are thrilled that the jury agreed with our argument,” said Parker Folse, Susman’s lead counsel on the case, in a statement (http://bit.ly/WOpot0). AT&T plans to appeal the verdict; a spokesman said “the verdict was a small fraction of what the plaintiff sought in this case; we will challenge the amount that was awarded.”