AT&T Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of AT&T Inc., a publicly traded multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The modern AT&T was formed in 1983 as Southwestern Bell Corporation, which later acquired its former parent company, AT&T Corp., in 2005 and adopted its name. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker T, parent company AT&T Inc. reported revenues of $125.6 billion for the last fiscal year and has approximately 150,000 employees.
AT&T is a major provider of telecommunications and technology services. Its primary offerings include wireless voice and data services for consumers and businesses, broadband and fiber internet access, and legacy fixed-line telephone services. The company's business solutions division provides services such as VoIP, managed networking, IoT connectivity, and cybersecurity. AT&T is one of the largest wireless carriers and the largest provider of fiber internet in the United States.
As a major operating company, AT&T is frequently a defendant in patent litigation. The provided data shows AT&T Services, Inc. as a defendant in one case and as a plaintiff in none, a posture typical of a large technology company defending against patent assertions from non-practicing entities (NPEs). The single tracked case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, a common venue for patent disputes.
The tracked case is Novacloud Licensing LLC v. AT&T Inc. et al., filed in June 2024. The plaintiff, Novacloud Licensing LLC, is a patent assertion entity formed in 2024 to license a portfolio of patents related to cloud computing, networking, and content delivery acquired from telecommunications company Ericsson. According to a press release, the portfolio includes 152 worldwide patents covering technologies such as network traffic management, load balancing, virtualization, and video streaming.