As ViaSat Files Fresh Lawsuit, Loral Tells MDA It's on Its Own

摘要

ViaSat Inc. may have succeeded in driving a wedge between the current and former owners of satellite builder Space Systems/ Loral (SSL) by filing a fresh patent-infringement lawsuit that lists only SSL as the defendant. The new lawsuit covers much of the same ground as the February 2012 claim, which is being adjudicated in a California District Court and is scheduled for trial in March. It alleges that SSL illegally used ViaSat proprietary information, gleaned during SSL's construction of the ViaSat-1 high-throughput satellite, to sell satellites to other customers including EchoStar Corp.'s Hughes, which is ViaSat's direct consumer broadband competitor in the United States.