A Dallas company's patent-infringement suit against Twitter, on hold since 2016, got a reboot last month when U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey reversed himself and said the case should proceed. The judge ordered lawyers for the two sides to confer and report back on the status of the case. Barring a settlement, the dispute appears headed toward a jury trial in his court. An attorney for the plaintiff, a company called VidStream, said he believes Twitter owes his client at least $600 million in unpaid licensing royalties. Lawyers for Twitter did not respond to a request for comment. In court filings, they said Twitter couldn't have infringed on the two patents in question because they're not valid: they do not describe a truly novel idea for an invention, Twitter's lawyers argued, but merely an "abstract idea" about a way to do something – namely, gather, process and distribute videos – that's already done using existing "generic computer components."