Archives: March 2017

Ward Smith & Hill helps Whirlpool Win $7.6 Million Texas Jury Verdict

March 30, 2017

MARSHALL, Texas – An East Texas jury has awarded Whirlpool Corp. $7.6 million, finding that a California company willfully infringed the patent protecting Whirlpool’s replacement water filters for refrigerators. The jury delivered the verdict against TST Water, LLC, on March 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall. The finding that the patent infringement…

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East Texas law firm Ward, Smith & Hill helps secure win against Motorola

March 27, 2017

MARSHALL, Texas – An East Texas federal jury has awarded $9.17 million to Plano, Texas-based Saint Lawrence Communications, LLC, after finding that Motorola Mobility, LLC, willfully infringed five patents for HD Voice technology used in its modern mobile phones. Jurors reached their verdict on March 24 after a week-long trial and almost four hours of deliberations in the U.S. District…

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