HTC CORP. v. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON

No. 19-40566 Consolidated with No. 19-40643.

12 F.4th 476 (2021)

HTC CORPORATION; HTC America, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON; Ericsson, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED August 31, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Burman , Kevin A. Zeck , Attorneys, Thomas Andrew Culbert , Perkins Coie, L.L.P., Seattle, WA, Jennifer Haltom Doan, Esq. , Haltom & Doan, Texarkana, TX, Andrew Thomas Dufrensne , Perkins Coie, L.L.P., Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Theodore E. Stevenson, III , Attorney, Alston & Bird, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Blake Hunter Bailey , McKool Smith, P.C., Houston, TX, Samuel Franklin Baxter , Senior Litigation Counsel, McKool Smith, P.C., Marshall, TX, Charles E. Fowler, Jr. , U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA, Rayiner I. Hashem , Jeffrey A. Lamken , MoloLamken, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Nicholas M. Mathews , McKool Smith, P.C., Chelsea Ann Priest , Sidley Austin, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Thomas W. Krause , U.S. Patent & Trademard Office, Kakoli Caprihan , Associate Solicitor, Meredith Hope Schoenfeld , U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Office of the Solicitor, Alexandria, VA, Adam Daniel Chandler , U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States of America.

Andrew Jacob Tuck , Attorney, Alston & Bird, L.L.P., Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae Nokia Technologies Oy.

Before Jones, Elrod, and Higginson, Circuit Judges.


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