Samsung slapped with $303 million jury verdict in patent lawsuit filed by Netlist

Samsung slapped with $303 million jury verdict in patent lawsuit filed by Netlist

In 2021, the California-based company sought damages worth $404 million

The computer-memory company Netlist Inc has been able to convince a federal jury in Marshall, Texas to award it over $303 million for Samsung Electronics Co's infringement of several patents related to improvements in the data processing.

After a six-day trial, the jury determined that Samsung's ‘memory modules’ for high-performance computing, wilfully infringed all five patents that Netlist accused the Korean tech giant of violating.

Irvine, California-based Netlist, had sued Samsung alleging the latter’s memory products used in cloud-computing servers and other data-intensive technology, infringed its patents.

Netlist claimed its innovations increased the power efficiency of memory modules and allowed users to "derive useful information from vast amounts of data in a shorter period of time."

According to a court transcript, the attorney representing Netlist informed the jury that Samsung took its patented module technology after the companies had collaborated on another project.

Samsung had argued that the patents were invalid and that its technology worked in a different way than the inventions of Netlist.