Satcoms provider Gogo Aviation must pay the administrators of former rival SmartSky $22.7m for infringing 5G technology patents, the US district court in Delaware has ruled.<\/p>\n
SmartSky abruptly ceased trading in August 2024.<\/a> However, this lawsuit had been brought to the courts back in February 2022 and was pursued by the receivers of the company. The case hinged on whether Gogo had copied patents relating to the way in which signals on the 2.4ghz spectrum were received.<\/p>\n READ: Gogo slams SmartSky\u2019s antitrust filing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In a statement, Gogo has said that it will appeal. \u201cWe are disappointed with today\u2019s verdict and respectfully disagree with the outcome. From the outset, we have maintained that Gogo\u2019s independently developed 5G technology does not infringe SmartSky\u2019s asserted patents, and their claims of patent protection are invalid\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe that the evidence supports our conclusion and that this litigation is an attempt to stifle legitimate competition and innovation in the aviation connectivity industry.\u202fWe have strong grounds for appeal on both liability and damages, and we will vigorously pursue all available legal remedies, including post-trial motions and appeals\u201d.<\/p>\n The company added that the action will have \u2018no impact\u2019 on the pending launch and roll-out of its own 5G service.<\/p>\n In a separate action<\/a> relating to \u2018predatory pricing\u2019, \u2018misleading advertising\u2019, and \u2018exclusive dealing agreements\u2019, SmartSky is pursuing Gogo for damages up to $1bn, which SmartSky has described as seeking \u2018justice for unfair business practices\u2019 and Gogo describes as a \u2018highly inaccurate representation of Gogo\u2019s behaviour\u2019 and a \u00a0\u2018last-ditch effort by SmartSky\u2019s creditors to recover some money on what amounts to a bad investment.\u2019<\/p>\n The post Gogo loses SmartSky legal action<\/a> appeared first on Aviation Business News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Satcoms provider Gogo Aviation must pay the administrators of former rival SmartSky $22.7m for infringing 5G technology patents, the US district court in Delaware has ruled. SmartSky abruptly ceased trading in August 2024. However, this lawsuit had been brought to the courts back in February 2022 and was pursued by the receivers of the company. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}