Minnesota Settles Decade-Old Patent Suits with Wireless Carriers

The University of Minnesota settled long-running lawsuits accusing subsidiaries of wireless carriers AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Sprint Corp., and Deutsche Telekom AG of infringing patents covering data-transmission technology, court filings show.

Joint motions to dismiss filed by the university, each wireless carrier, and base-station suppliers Ericsson Inc. and Nokia of America Corp. were granted Wednesday in orders by Judge John R. Tunheim in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota. Ericsson, which sold base stations to each of the carriers, intervened in the cases in 2016, and units of Nokia Oyj also joined as ...