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A U.S. District Court has determined Verizon (NYSE:VZ) must pay $847M after the jury found the communications giant was infringing on patents held by General Access Solutions Ltd.
The fall 2022 lawsuit saw General Access Solutions accusing Verizon’s Cellco Partnership of violating two patents: U.S. Patent 9,426,794 (with Verizon’s (VZ) 4G and 5G wireless routers and hotspots) and U.S. patent 7,230,931 (with its 5G cellular base stations).
Verizon (VZ) responded that it didn’t infringe the patents, and that both patents were invalid.
The jury rejected both of those arguments. For violating the ‘931 patent, it awarded $583M, and for violating the ‘794 patent, it awarded $264M.
The case was decided in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.