Surely, by now, patent defendants have taken note of the impressive stretch of nine-digit damages wins in Texas by Jason Sheasby, Lisa Glasser and their colleagues at Irell & Manella. 

If not, maybe their latest win—handed down last week for StreamScale Inc.—will get their attention. After a four-day trial, jurors in U.S. District Judge Alan Albright’s Waco courtroom found that software company Cloudera Inc. infringed three StreamScale patents for “accelerated erasure coding,” a technology used to efficiently store data. Jurors awarded StreamScale $240 million in damages.