Marshall federal court records show that a verdict form submitted on Jan. 15 during a weeklong trial confirmed Genband was successful in proving Metaswitch committed infringement of United States Patent Numbers 6,791,971; 6,885,658; 6,934,279; 7,995,589; 7,047,561; 7,184,427; and 7,990,984.
Metaswitch, in turn, failed to prove that Genband’s claims were invalid, per the four-page document.
Genband filed the patent infringement suit against Metaswitch on Jan. 21, 2014.
The complaint asserted that the defendant of engaging in the following acts:
• Makes, uses, imports, offers to sell, and/or sells in the U.S. systems that perform network address translation on an address of a telephone-number-based device.
• Makes, uses, imports, offers to sell, and/or sells in the U.S. systems that enable communications services associated with a service control function from an IP service switching function.
• Makes, uses, imports, offers to sell, and/or sells in the U.S. systems that interwork between different IP telephony protocols.
• Makes, uses, imports, offers to sell, and/or sells in the U.S. systems that enable communications over a data network using a user interface.
• Makes, uses, imports, offers to sell, and/or sells in the U.S. systems that apply an application proxy to packets in signaling or control channels and a packet filter to packets in bearer channels.
• Makes, uses, imports, offers to sell, and/or sells in the U.S. systems that communicate telecommunication information associated with subscribers between a telecommunication network and a broadband network.
The jury awarded Genband $8.2 million in damages.
Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas Case No. 2:14-CV-0033