This past week, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict against TP-Link, awarding plaintiff Atlas Global Technologies LLC nearly $37.5M in lump sum damages. The verdict followed a relatively unusual runup to trial that included deeming sales data from an independent third-party source as established facts (which TP-Link argued is a clear error that might inappropriately hike any lump sum damages award by about $18.5M), removing multiple prior art references from the case as not predating certain provisional applications, and rejecting an eleventh-hour attempt to postpone the trial to December. Atlas Global, a subsidiary of publicly traded Acacia Research Corporation, sued TP-Link back in November 2021, alleging infringement of eight former NEWRACOM patents (five of which were tried to the recent jury) through the provision of certain Wi-Fi 6-compliant devices. Active defendants in this campaign include Acer, also sued in the Eastern District of Texas, and ASUSTek, Dell, D-Link, HP, OnePlus, Sercomm, and Unizyx (Zyxel), all sued in the Western District of Texas.