Communications
Thane Bauz regularly defends companies against patent assertions relating to Internet, satellite, and cellular technologies. His legal experience in this space includes preparing non-infringement and invalidity defenses, participating in early settlement discussions, and taking cases to trial. He often counsels clients with products utilizing these technologies. His business-related projects have included patent portfolio development, sales and purchases. His patent litigation engagements in the communications space have involved products with annual sales approaching $1B.
Representative clients include Hughes, Autobytel, Kyocera, Nagra Kudelski, Sony and Marconi.
Representative Communications-Related Litigation Engagements:
Blue Spike LLC v. Huawei, et al.
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Engaged to defend smartphone designer against multi-patent assertion concerning address space layout randomization functionality in the Android operating system. The case is pending.
Smart Audio LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al.
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Retained to defend a multi-patent assertion involving audio software used in smartphones. The case settled on favorable terms after claim construction.
Datascape v. Kyocera Wireless Corp.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Retained to defend smartphone manufacturer against a multi-patent assertion relating to the downloading and formatting of digital content. Case settled on highly favorable terms after securing favorable claim construction and reexamination decisions.
ParkerVision Inc. v. InfoSonics Corp.
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Engaged by defendant in a multi-patent lawsuit involving up-converting and down-converting of EM signals in broadband communications. Case was dismissed shortly after successful appeal in an unrelated case.
Bell Communications v. Marconi Communications Inc.
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Represented Marconi in a multi-patent lawsuit involving telecommunication equipment, Internet Protocols, Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) and Ethernet switching technologies. The case settled soon after the court issued a favorable claim construction decision.
Personal Audio LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al.
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Retained to defend a multi-patent lawsuit concerning audio playlist functionality in smartphones. The case settled on favorable terms shortly after arguing claim construction and discovery motions.