![]() Those three – Dallas-based Oncor Electric Delivery, Corinth’s CoServ, and Denton Municipal Electric – are also receiving indemnification from the meter makers whose products they use. In the fall, three North Texas utilities will seek to fight off TransData’s patent-infringement contentions. (Nasdaq: ITRI), which made the smart meters in question. CenterPoint is receiving indemnification from Liberty Lake, Wash.-based Itron Inc. In the July case, Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric will attempt to fend off accusations that it has used electric meters that supposedly infringe three of TransData’s patents. Schroeder III will preside at the second trial, which will kick off Sept. The first Tyler trial, set for July 18, will be in the courtroom of Magistrate Judge John D. ![]() Jamie McDole, Haynes and Boone“This is a very large case,” said McDole, whose client has 23 employees and was founded in 1969. Of the five cases that Itron and Landis+Gyr must worry about, two set for trial in Tyler this year will probably influence the ultimate outcomes of the other three, according to Jamie McDole, a Dallas-based partner at Haynes and Boone who is leading TransData’s legal charge. and Landis+Gyr could face combined exposure of more than $2.88 billion by way of the five separate cases from Carrollton’s TransData. (May 24) – Two trials in East Texas later this year will go a long way in determining whether a total of five separate patent infringement lawsuits from a small Dallas-area company will turn into billion-dollar problems for two of the largest makers of “smart” electric meters in the U.S.
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