AT&T Inc. was told to pay $27.5 million for infringing a Colorado company’s patents for controlling how audio or video is streamed online.
AT&T’s U-verse TV services infringed two patents owned by Two-Way Media LLC, the federal jury in San Antonio said Wednesday. The jury rejected Dallas-based AT&T’s efforts to have the patents deemed invalid.
The Two-Way patents cover live streaming technology as well as ways to record detailed usage data by customers, according to the company’s lawyers at Susman Godfrey. Boulder-based Two-Way had sued Akamai Technologies Inc. and Limelight Networks Inc. over the same technology; those two companies settled.
“This was a very hard-fought case,” Parker Folse, a Seattle-based Susman lawyer representing Two-Way, said in a statement.
The trial focused on three Two-Way patents. The jury found U-Verse infringed two of them. AT&T said it would seek to have the verdict overturned.
“While the verdict was a small fraction of what the plaintiff sought in this case, we will challenge the amount that was awarded,” Marty Richter, an AT&T spokesman, said in a statement.
