Charter Loses Bid to Dismiss, Transfer Internet Patent Suit

A Texas federal judge denied Charter Communications Inc.’s efforts to escape patent infringement allegations concerning high-speed internet service.

Charter, which does business as Spectrum, didn’t show how a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation was erroneous in denying the telecommunications company’s motion to transfer or dismiss Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment Inc.’s lawsuit, Judge Rodney Gilstrap said in a May 29 order filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Gilstrap overruled Charter’s objections and adopted the March report and recommendation.

ASSIA sued Charter and its units in February 2024, alleging the telecommunications company infringed US …