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Headwater, tipped off by anonymous package, says AT&T stole software solution

By Melissa Ritti ( April 24, 2025, 17:55 GMT | Insight) -- A new patent infringement complaint by Headwater Research in Texas accuses AT&T of gleaning proprietary information on advancements in support tethering for wireless communications from confidential meetings it held with ItsOn Inc. over a decade ago and then passing the technology off as its own. The smoking gun in yesterday’s complaint is the same wielded by Headwater in previous lawsuits against the mobile carrier: an internal presentation by AT&T identifying its new software agent as a “replacement” for the solutions disclosed by ItsOn under NDA. Headwater, licensor for ItsOn, says it received a copy of the presentation anonymously in 2010.Prolific patent litigant and nonpracticing entity Headwater Research has again turned its attention to AT&T....

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