Securus Technologies Inc v. Global Tellink Corporation, No. 16-1470 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 26, 2017)

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I Securus Technologies, Inc., owns patents relating to the delivery of communications services to correctional facilities. It has sued various entities for infringement of those patents. One of the entities Securus sued was Public Communications Services, Inc. (“PCS”). That suit ended in 2009 wi th a settlement that included Securus’s agreement not to sue “PCS or its affiliates” for “infring e- ment of any Securus Patent” until September 18, 2014.