Voxer, Inc. et al v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al

  1. June 28, 2023

    Patent Verdict Against Meta In Texas Boosted Past $200M

    A Texas federal judge has agreed to revise an infringement judgment of nearly $175 million against Meta over network reception technology, adding about $27 million in supplemental damages and implementing an ongoing royalty rate but rebuffing the patent owner's bid for a partial retrial.

  2. April 26, 2023

    Meta Fights Walkie-Talkie App's Bid For Bigger Patent Win

    Meta Platforms has urged a Texas federal judge to rebuff a patent owner's request to amend an over $175 million infringement judgment against the social media giant over network reception technology, arguing that its adversary waited too long to seek "hundreds of millions of dollars" more.

  3. March 22, 2023

    App Developer Says Meta Owes Royalties After $175M IP Win

    The maker of a walkie-talkie app has asked a Texas federal judge to award it ongoing royalties and supplemental damages after a jury found that Facebook's parent company Meta owed $175 million for infringing live video and sound technology patents.

  4. February 22, 2023

    Texas Judge Refuses To Torpedo $175M Verdict Against Meta

    A federal judge in Texas has rejected arguments by Facebook's parent company that purportedly inflammatory comments about the social media website's use of "censorship" by Quinn Emanuel lawyers representing an app developer have tainted the developer's $175 million jury win in a patent case.

  5. October 26, 2022

    Attys Accused Of 'Riling Up' Texas Jury Against Facebook

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan lawyers representing a smartphone app developer in a patent case are accused of repeatedly referencing social media spying and censorship in order to "rile up the jury's prejudices against Facebook" last month in order to win a $175 million verdict that Meta Platforms is now trying to knock out.

  6. September 21, 2022

    Meta Hit With $175M Patent Verdict In Austin

    A federal jury in Austin on Wednesday said Meta Platforms owed almost $175 million to developers of a "walkie-talkie" smartphone app, finding that both Instagram Live and Facebook Live infringed one or more claims in patents issued to the company's founder, a former U.S. Army communications sergeant.

  7. September 08, 2022

    IP Forecast: DC Circ. To Hear Free Speech Challenge To DMCA

    The D.C. Circuit next week will consider a long-simmering constitutional challenge to parts of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation call "a draconian federal statute that directly restricts [the] ability to speak." Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.

  8. February 15, 2022

    Facebook Can't Ax Voxer's Livestream Patents Under Alice

    A Texas federal judge Tuesday denied a bid by Facebook Inc. and its subsidiary Instagram LLC to invalidate under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test two of several livestreaming technology patents that the social media behemoths are accused of infringing.

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