{"id":19771,"date":"2023-04-21T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/samsung-hit-with-303\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T21:23:39","slug":"samsung-hit-with-303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/samsung-hit-with-303\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung hit with $303 million jury verdict in computer-memory patent lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     Computer-memory company Netlist Inc convinced a federal jury in Texas on Friday to award it more than $303 million for Samsung Electronics Co&#8217;s infringement of several patents related to improvements in data processing.<\/p>\n<p>The jury in Marshall, Texas determined after a six-day trial that Samsung&#8217;s &#8220;memory modules&#8221; for high-performance computing willfully infringed all five patents that Netlist accused the Korean tech giant of violating.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for the companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Netlist stock was up 21% following the verdict on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Irvine, California-based Netlist sued Samsung in 2021, alleging Samsung memory products used in cloud-computing servers and other data-intensive technology infringe its patents. Netlist said its innovations increase the power efficiency of memory modules and allow users to &#8220;derive useful information from vast amounts of data in a shorter period of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Netlist attorney told the jury that Samsung took its patented module technology after the companies had collaborated on another project, according to a court transcript.<\/p>\n<p>Netlist had asked the jury for $404 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung had argued that the patents were invalid and that its technology worked in a different way than Netlist&#8217;s inventions. <\/p>\n<p>The case is Netlist Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, No. 2:21-cv-00463.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington; Editing by David Gregorio)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/samsung-hit-with-303\/gsmas-2023-mobile-world-congress-mwc-in-barcelona-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0RU-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0RU-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Computer-memory company Netlist Inc convinced a federal jury in Texas on Friday to award it more than $303 million for Samsung Electronics Co&#8217;s infringement of several patents related to improvements in data processing. The jury in Marshall, Texas determined after a six-day trial that Samsung&#8217;s &#8220;memory modules&#8221; for high-performance computing willfully infringed all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1220],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-19771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-technology","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0RU-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19775,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions\/19775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}