The Charter litigation is looking very likely to result in a large damages award to Windstream. It was a brazen, textbook violation of the Lanham Act, which federal judges take very seriously. Judge Drain is about to make an example out of Charter, to the benefit of Windstream. Probably a few hundred million $. Damages ruling will come any day - this week or next probably. Charter will likely then settle with Windstream on a lesser, but still very large, value. This will become an embarrassment for Charter so they won’t want to draw it out too long. The appellate judge (Judge Furman) works very, very closely with Judge Drain so the odds of Charter winning an appeal are low.
