Permanent injunction granted in Liberty Media patent dispute

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Published August 1, 2008 at 9:05 p.m.

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Liberty Media Corp.'s TruePosition unit, the provider of mobile-phone location equipment, won a permanent injunction prohibiting rival CommScope Inc.'s Andrew Corp. from marketing products that infringe a U.S. patent.

U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson also reduced last year's $45.3 million jury award for TruePosition to $23.25 million and denied Andrew's bid for a new trial, in an opinion issued Friday in Wilmington, Del.

TruePosition and Andrew "are the only suppliers in a two-supplier market" and TruePosition "has established irreparable harm" from the infringement, Robinson wrote. "A sale to defendant is the loss of a sale to plaintiff." Berwyn, Pa.-based TruePosition sued Andrew in 2005 over the patent, alleging infringing sales of telecommunications gear to Saudi Arabia. A year earlier, Andrew agreed to pay TruePosition $35 million to settle another patent suit.

"We'll look and see what the ruling is and means, and take appropriate action," said Rick Aspan, a CommScope spokesman, in a telephone interview.

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