Shook Patent Litigation Win Added to the NLJ’s Verdicts Hall of Fame

Shook is honored to be inducted into The National Law Journal’s Verdicts Hall of Fame for obtaining the largest-ever patent verdict in Kansas. The NLJ selected Shook’s IP litigation verdict, Sprint Communications Co. v. Time Warner Cable Inc., for the honor. 

Shook represented Sprint in a lawsuit alleging that Time Warner Cable infringed a portfolio of Voice-over-IP patents. A federal jury found that Time Warner Cable infringed all 19 asserted claims from five Sprint patents and awarded Sprint nearly $140 million in damages. The jury also found that Time Warner Cable’s infringement was willful.  

Learn more about the VoIP technology in this case.

Sprint was represented by Shook attorneys B. Trent Webb, Rob Reckers, Ryan Dykal, Lauren Douville, Jordan Bergsten, Aaron Hankel, John Garretson, Mark Schafer and Ryan Schletzbaum, and Peter Strand. 

Sprint Communications Co. v. Time Warner Cable Inc., D. Kan., 2:11-CV-02686-JWL, 3/3/2017