A federal jury in Tyler this week handed T-Mobile a big win, ruling that the global communications giant did not infringe the patent rights of New York-based Realtime Data.
After a six-day trial, nine East Texas jurors deliberated for two hours Monday before finding that Realtime Data’s patents on a certain system and method for data compression were invalid and that T-Mobile had not infringed.
In 2010, Realtime Data sued several large corporate defendants, including Dallas-based AT&T and Dallas-based
MetroPCS, as well as Verizon, Sprint and even a handful of financial institutions. The plaintiff’s sought $265 million in damages.
AT&T, MetroPCS and Verizon reportedly settled for millions of dollars.
T-Mobile decided to fight and hired Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher litigation partners Tracey Davies and Bill Dawson of Dallas and Beaumont attorney J. Thad Heartfeld.