A federal jury in Texas has granted Netlist, a computer memory company, a verdict of over $303 million for Samsung Electronics Co’s infringement of multiple patents related to advancements in data processing.
Netlist, headquartered in Irvine, California, sued Samsung in 2021, alleging that its memory products, used in cloud-computing servers and other data-intensive technologies, violated its patents. Netlist claimed that its innovations improve the power efficiency of memory modules and enable users to obtain valuable information from vast amounts of data in a shorter time.
According to a court transcript, a Netlist lawyer told the jury that Samsung had taken its patented module technology after the firms had collaborated on another project. Netlist had requested $404 million in compensation from the jury.
Samsung countered that the patents were invalid and that its technology operated differently from Netlist’s inventions.