Posttrial Briefing Well Underway in East Texas, Collision Communications Hits Apple Next Door

Collision Communications, Inc. has sued Apple (7:26-cv-00107) over the provision of a wide range of devices with 4G, 5G, and/or Wi-Fi connectivity, including certain computers, laptops, smart watches, smartphones, and tablets. The new Western District of Texas case follows the October 2025 return from an Eastern District of Texas jury of a verdict awarding roughly $445M to the plaintiff in a suit filed there against Samsung. The US Department of Justice and USPTO have filed a statement of interest (SOI) in that case, urging the court to consider a nonpracticing entity’s claim to irreparable harm because, among other things, “patents can be difficult to value”. Samsung has responded, among other things warning that an injunction here “would wipe out over a quarter of the U.S. smartphone market based on one patent a non-practicing entity bought from a third party”.