Context: In March 2014, ClearPlay sued DISH Network and its affiliate EchoStar Technologies in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, alleging infrignement of two patents directed to methods of filtering multimedia content. In March 2023 a jury found infringement of both patents and awarded $469 million damages to ClearPlay. Subsequently, the district court granted DISH’s motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL), overriding the jury verdict; ClearPlay appealed.
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Court and counsel
Panel: Circuit Judge Alan D. Lourie, Circuit Judge Sharon Prost, and District Judge Allison D. Burroughs (of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, sitting by designation).
ClearPlay was represented by Knobbe Martens’ Alan G. Laquer, Jeremiah Helm, Rhett Ramsey, and Joseph R. Re; Williams Blackhurst Terhune‘s Dennis Blackhurst, L. Richard Williams, and Abigail Terhune; Ray Quinney & Nebeker’s Michael K. Erickson; and Foley & Lardner’s David Jordan.
DISH Network and EchoStar were represented by Orrick’s Eric Shumsky, Robert Manhas, Alexandra Bursak, Edmund Hirschfeld, and Lauren Weber; Hatch Law Group’s Brent O. Hatch; and Baker Botts’ Ali Dhanani, C. Stephen Maule, Lauren J. Dreyer, Jamie R. Lynn, G. Hopkins Guy III, and Kurt M. Pankratz.