ActiveVideo Awarded $115M in Patent Infringement Victory Over Verizon

ActiveVideo Networks, makers of the CloudTV Platform, today was awarded damages totaling $115 million in the jury trial of the company's patent infringement suit against Verizon Communications VZ. The decision upholds ActiveVideo's rights as the inventor of industry-leading technology in the delivery of advanced television applications such as video-on-demand and interactive TV. Following three weeks of proceedings, a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that Verizon had infringed on all asserted claims of the intellectual property owned by ActiveVideo during the deployment of Verizon's FiOS television service.