According to court filings, Charter Communications Inc. and T-Mobile’s Sprint Communications Co. have reached an agreement to resolve a wide-ranging intellectual property claim over the alleged misuse of each others’ technology.
The companies asked a federal court Monday and Tuesday for dismissal of the cases, citing the settlement. The details of the settlement are not yet available.
Charter did not comment. Sprint and its lawyers didn’t immediately respond to inquiries for comment.
Sprint sued Charter’s Time Warner Cable, Kansas in 2011. won over $140 million after a jury found Time Warner had infringed patents related to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which is used to relay calls over the internet.
In 2016, a Charter subsidiary sued Sprint in Delaware alleging that Sprint’s LTE wireless technology violated a telecommunications Patent. On Sprint’s request to have the case thrown out before trial, a Delaware judge ruled in favor of Sprint.
T-Mobile of West Texas sued the subsidiary in 2020 over infringing the identical patent. The case was also settled by the settlement.
Sprint responded to Delaware lawsuits in 2017 and 2018 with its own. It argued that Charter’s Spectrum television, internet and telephone services infringe patents relating to wireless phone-call processing technology and on-demand streaming video.
In January, the Delaware court ruled in favor of Charter. Charter’s Send-to-TV technology to control streaming video using a smartphone did not infringe Sprint patents.
On Monday, the companies informed the court that they had settled all three cases. They were then dismissed on Tuesday.
Charter also filed a separate suit against Sprint in Kansas in 2020 alleging that Sprint had stolen its VoIP trade secrets. The Kansas City court was asked to dismiss the case in a joint filing on Tuesday.
The cases are TC Technology LLC v. Sprint Corp. U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware No. 1:16-cv-00153. TC Technology LLC v. T-Mobile USA Inc., U.S. District Court for Texas Western District, No. 6:20-cv-01734; Sprint Communications Co. v. Charter Communications Inc. U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Nos. 1:17-cv-01734 & 1:18-cv-012033 Sprint Communications Co v. Charter Communications Inc. U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. 2:20-cv-02161.
Sprint: Trent Webb, Robert Reckers, of Shook, Harty & Bacon, Josh Krevitt, and Wayne Barsky, of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and Stephen Kraftschik, of Polsinelli
Charter: David Benyacar, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, Charles Verhoeven, Deepa Acharya, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Kelly Farnan, Richards, Layton & Finger, and Scott Nehrbass, Foulston Siefkin
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