EDTX Jury Returns Goose Eggs to Huge Telecom Equipment Makers in Patent Dispute

Since the Eastern District of Texas became one of the nation’s leading venues for bringing patent disputes in the 1990s, it has gained a reputation for empaneling juries that are plaintiff-friendly.

Someone forgot to tell that to the four women and two men who, in mid-March, heard the second phase of a patent war between two rival makers of telecom equipment, London-based Metaswitch Networks and Plano’s Genband US.