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East Texas Jury Awards Finesse Wireless over $166.3M
Patent Litigation Feature
Last week, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict awarding Finesse Wireless, LLC just over $166.3M in damages for the infringement of ten claims from two patents, none of which was proven invalid. Finesse Wireless sued AT&T (AT&T Mobility), as well as Verizon (Verizon Wireless), back in 2021, alleging infringement of certain base stations within their respective cell networks. Ericsson and Nokia separately intervened, as component manufacturers. By the time of trial, agreements had ended litigation against Ericsson and Verizon Wireless, leaving AT&T Mobility and Nokia to face the jury, with District Judge Rodney Gilstrap presiding.
January 13, 2023
Finesse Wireless Hits Carriers with Second Set of Complaints, Substantively Identical to 2020 Filings
New Patent Litigation
Finesse Wireless, LLC appears to have filed new Eastern District of Texas complaints against AT&T (AT&T Mobility) (2:21-cv-00316) and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) (2:21-cv-00317), complaints in which the same two patents are asserted against the defendants’ respective 4G/LTE and 5G mobile networks, as well as related cellular base stations, as a pair of earlier complaints filed this past February in the same district. Between then and now, Ericsson and Nokia have intervened, but no additional assignment activity of the patents-in-suit has appeared in publicly available assignment records.
August 27, 2021
Wireless Networks and Base Stations at Issue in New Inventor-Backed Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled Finesse Wireless, LLC has filed its first patent litigation, accusing AT&T (AT&T Mobility) (2:21-cv-00063) and Verizon (Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless) (2:21-cv-00064) over the provision of their respective 4G/LTE and 5G mobile networks, as well as related cellular base stations. Two wireless communications patents are asserted, each with Francis J. Smith as sole named inventor.
February 24, 2021