Tuesday, November 26th 2024
Netlist Wins $118 Million in Second Patent Infringement Trial Against Samsung
Netlist, Inc. today announced that it won a $118 million damages award against Samsung Electronics Co., LTD., Samsung Electronics America, Inc., and Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. (together "Samsung") in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The award resulted from a jury trial which involved three Netlist patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 7,619,912, 11,093,417 and 10,268,608. The infringing products were all Samsung DDR4 RDIMMs and DDR4 LRDIMMs. Netlist filed the complaint against Samsung in August 2022.
The federal jury's unanimous verdict confirmed that all three Netlist patents had been infringed by Samsung, that none of the patents were invalid, that Samsung willfully infringed those patents, and that money damages were owed to Netlist for the infringement of all three patents.
C.K. Hong, Netlist's Chief Executive Officer, said, "In the past 19 months three separate juries have awarded Netlist $866 million in damages for the willful infringement of our patents. These verdicts are among the largest in the semiconductor industry during this period and highlight the tremendous value of our intellectual property. Exposure to our patents continues to accumulate as volume of memory products for AI see explosive growth. Netlist is committed to securing fair value for the unauthorized use of our patents."
Additional information about Netlist, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. LTD., et. al., EDTX Case 2:22-cv-00293-JRG is available through the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) service.
Netlist previously received two separate jury awards for the willful infringement of its patents. In April 2023, Netlist won a $303 million damages award against Samsung, and in May 2024, Netlist won a $445 million damages award against Micron Technology, Inc., Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc. and Micron Technology Texas LLC.
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The federal jury's unanimous verdict confirmed that all three Netlist patents had been infringed by Samsung, that none of the patents were invalid, that Samsung willfully infringed those patents, and that money damages were owed to Netlist for the infringement of all three patents.
Additional information about Netlist, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. LTD., et. al., EDTX Case 2:22-cv-00293-JRG is available through the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) service.
Netlist previously received two separate jury awards for the willful infringement of its patents. In April 2023, Netlist won a $303 million damages award against Samsung, and in May 2024, Netlist won a $445 million damages award against Micron Technology, Inc., Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc. and Micron Technology Texas LLC.
12 Comments on Netlist Wins $118 Million in Second Patent Infringement Trial Against Samsung
It has secured $866 million in damages awards since 2022.
Those patents are definitely paying off lol
They lost the trust and sympathy of the world when they were convicted for operating an international price-fixing cartel. "Innocent until proven guilty" falls apart after your second conviction and the outcome of a third class-action lawsuit filed against Samsung, Hynix, and Micron.
I'm not criticizing TPU.
I'm criticizing Netlist
You typically don't publish court wins or losses in a press release.
Yeah it's in the investors section. No, you don't typically make it easy to find.
Either it makes you look like an asshole if you won (even if you were the one who was wronged) or makes you look like a gloating asshole if you won.
Guess they bought into "any PR is good PR" nonsense.
Anyone working PR knows that bad PR = you're going down or you're fucked.
Now with this PR (public relations) and PR (press release) companies will know to avoid them at all costs and avoid their patents.
TL;DR don't tell the world you shit your pants. People will avoid you.
slap a couple of zeros on the end and see if that makes them stop breaking laws.
I'm sure this particular lawsuit is more patent abuse than anti-cartel rulings, but my point is that all the major players in the game are very dirty and deserving of their misfortunes, whether directly or indirectly.
I was working on something to save my company around 2mil a year on licensing fees and they were like why even bother with this much effort for *only* 2 mil. These guys run on a different scale.
I wish fines like these were more attuned to the size of the company than the actual losses encountered by the victims, that would prevent these big corpos doing what ever they like. Samsung electronics alone made 11.857 billion in net income alone.
That was a major problem in the '00s. The same thing has happened in the 2010s.