McKool Smith has secured a $75 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of Ericsson Inc. and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (collectively “Ericsson”) against TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd.
The verdict was announced on Thursday, December 7, 2017 after a four day jury trial before Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall. After 4.5 hours of deliberations, jurors awarded $75 million in damages to Ericsson finding that the defendant willfully infringed Ericsson’s 7,149,510 patent, which covers a method and system for controlling access to a platform for a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system or for another product.
The McKool Smith trial team included firm principals Sam Baxter, Jennifer Truelove, Frank Vecella, and Nick Mathews, and Warren Lipschitz.
The case is Ericsson Inc. et al. v. TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd. et al., case number 2:15-cv-00011, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
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