Verizon hit with $190M jury verdict in infringement suit brought by Aspen Networks over Wi-Fi/cell switching; AT&T, T-Mobile up next

Context: Aspen Networks sued Verizon Wireless1 in December 2023 in the United States Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of a patent relating to the quality of video and voice calls sent over internet links and switching between cellular and Wi-Fi connections. Aspen also sued network providers AT&T Mobility2 and T-Mobile3 for infringement of the same patent; the three cases were later consolidated for “all pre-trial issues”, before being de-consolidated earlier this month with the Verizon case proceeding to trial.

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Aspen Networks is represented by Womble Bond Dickinson’s Barry J. Herman, Christine H. Dupriest, Fabio Elia Marino, Jace D. Williams, John G. Perry, Julie Giardina, Preston H. Heard, and Steven Mark Levitan; and Findlay Craft’s Eric Hugh Findlay.

Verizon is represented by Duane Morris’s Aleksander Jerzy Goranin, Brianna M. Vinci, Elissa Sanford, Glenn D. Richeson, Holly Elin Engelmann, John R. Gibson, John Hillman, Kevin Paul Anderson, Matthew Sean Yungwirth, and Robert M. Palumbos; and The Dacus Firm’s Deron R. Dacus.

  1. The legal entity named in Aspen’s suit is Cellco Partnership d/b/a (doing business as) Verizon Wireless. ↩︎
  2. AT&T ↩︎
  3. Deutsche Telekom ↩︎