Company overview. EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) is a publicly traded satellite and telecommunications company headquartered at 9601 S. Meridian Blvd., Englewood, Colorado. Founded in 1980 by Charlie Ergen as a C-band satellite-dish distributor, the current Nevada-incorporated entity dates to 2007 and was spun out of DISH Network in 2008, then re-merged with DISH on December 31, 2023 (DISH is now a wholly owned subsidiary). EchoStar employs roughly 12,100 people and reported FY2025 revenue of about $15.0 billion; market capitalization fluctuated in the mid-$20B–$37B range during 2026.
Products / services / operations. EchoStar operates four segments: (1) Pay-TV — DISH-branded satellite TV and Sling TV streaming; (2) Wireless — Boost Mobile and Gen Mobile prepaid service, operating as a hybrid MNO on AT&T's network after decommissioning its own 5G network in late 2025; (3) Broadband and Satellite Services — via subsidiary Hughes, including HughesNet satellite broadband, enterprise/government connectivity, and in-flight connectivity; and (4) Other, largely legacy 5G network assets. The company is under financial stress: it agreed to sell spectrum to AT&T ($23B) and SpaceX ($17B), and subsidiaries Dish Wireless and Dish DBS filed prepackaged Chapter 11 cases on June 30, 2026.
Patent-litigation posture. EchoStar is an operating company, not an NPE. Its single tracked case is as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases), reflecting a company defending its consumer services against an IP-licensing plaintiff. In Adeia Technologies Inc. et al. v. DISH Network Corporation et al. (filed March 31, 2026, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado), the plaintiffs are Adeia, an R&D/IP-licensing firm spun out of the Rovi/Xperi merger that asserts patents without practicing them. The suit targets DISH TV (Hopper platform), DISH Anywhere, and Sling TV, alleging infringement of five patents covering adaptive video streaming, program guides, access control, and ad insertion. EchoStar's 10-Q says it intends to defend vigorously. Notably, the case sits in Colorado — EchoStar's home district — rather than a plaintiff-friendly venue like the Eastern District of Texas. External context: EchoStar's filings also disclose a separate, later-transferred NPE suit (Err Content IP, LLC) over DISH Anywhere streaming features.