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After a jury unanimously determined final September that Meta owed $175 million to walkie-talkie app-maker Voxer for patent infringement, Meta tried to keep away from paying up by requesting a choose both reject the jury’s verdict or give Meta a brand new trial. This week, a federal choose denied Meta’s request, making it doubtless that Meta should pay all these working royalties for illegally copying Voxer’s know-how and utilizing it to launch Fb Dwell and Instagram Dwell.
Meta had argued seemingly every part it might to get out of paying hundreds of thousands in damages. It questioned whether or not the jury’s resolution was affordable, claiming that Voxer’s lawyer had made feedback that biased the jury. In Meta’s view, no affordable jury would have discovered that Meta infringed Voxer’s patented video-streaming and messaging applied sciences. Additional, even when everybody agreed that there was infringement, Meta argued that the damages have been too excessive and improperly calculated by Voxer’s skilled. As an alternative of owing working royalties, Meta felt it ought to be required to pay both no damages or a lump sum.
In his resolution, US District Choose Lee Yeakel affirmed that substantial proof supported the jury’s verdict of patent infringement and adequate proof supported the damages that the jury awarded Voxer.
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