Trial Underway Against Verizon Wireless, Headwater Research Files First US Suit Against Apple

Headwater Research LLC has filed suit against Apple (7:25-cv-00318) in the Western District of Texas. Asserted are two patents new to this expanding campaign but part of the same large family asserted against prior defendants, which include wireless carriers AT&T (AT&T Mobility), Deutsche Telekom (Sprint, T-Mobile), and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) as well as device makers Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Lenovo, and Samsung. Headwater targets Apple over the provision of mobile devices—including “mobile phones, tablets, wearables, and television devices, as well as servers”—that support the Apple Push Notification service, which allegedly uses “remote notifications (also known as push notifications) to push small amounts of data to devices that use your app, even when your app isn’t running”.