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West Texas Jury Sides with Funded PalTalk After Court Leaves “Each” to a Disputed Plain and Ordinary Meaning

September 2, 2024

Last week, a Western District of Texas jury awarded PalTalk (f/k/a PeerStream) (PalTalk Holdings) $65.7M for the infringement of claims 1-5 of a single patent generally related to managing audio data distribution to allow for multiple users with different “equipment” to participate in an audio conference. In a July 2021 complaint, PalTalk targeted the provision of features for “transporting different audio types to different participants based upon their individual connection methods” within Cisco’s various WebEx audio conferencing platforms. The “plain and ordinary meaning” of the word “each”—disputed by the parties here—hangs over this result.


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