AT&T Told to Pay $27.5 Million After Losing Two-Way Trial

AT&T 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. The jury rejected 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, Colorado-based Two-Way had sued Akamai Technologies Inc. and Limelight Networks over the same technology; those two companies settled. 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.