A team of attorneys from Heim, Payne & Chorush recently helped Texas-based Atlas Global Technologies Inc. secure a federal appeals court ruling that fully affirms a 2023 patent-infringement verdict of over $37.5 million.

Heim, Payne & Chorush partners Michael Heim, Eric Enger, Alden Harris, Blaine Larson, and Wills Collier successfully represented Atlas Global alongside attorneys Joseph Grinstein, Max Tribble, Alejandra Salinas, Alexander Aiken, and Kalpana Srinivasan from Houston’s Susman Godfrey; Johnny Ward and Andrea Fair from Longview’s Miller Fair Henry, and Calvin Capshaw and Elizabeth DeRieux from Gladewater’s Capshaw DeRieux to secure the trial and appellate victories.

“Everyone on the Atlas Global team knows the jury’s verdict was justified, and this decision proves it,” says Mr. Heim. “We are proud to represent our friends in this case and help them protect what they own.”

The Federal Circuit decision follows an appeal filed by China-based telecommunications companies TP-Link Technologies Co. Ltd. and Lianzhou Technologies Co. Ltd. in Atlas Global Technologies LLC v. TP-Link Technologies Co., Ltd., No. 25-1039 and No. 25- 1076.

A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found the defendants liable for infringing a series of Atlas Global patents covering crucial Wi-Fi technologies, U.S. Patent No. 9,532,187; No. 9,763,259; No. 9,825,738; No. 9,912,513 and No. 9,917,679.

In the lead-up to the trial, the Heim, Payne & Choursh team helped Atlas Global fully defeat TP-Link’s motion to dismiss the case or transfer it to federal court in California.