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Last week it was serial patent thief Apple, who was defending themselves in a US court accused of stealing patents, this week It’s Samsung who has been nobbled to the tune of A$454 million
after they were accused of the infringement of several patents owned by computer-memory company Netlist. After a six-day trial in Texas a jury concluded, that Samsung’s “memory modules” for
high-performance computing willfully infringed all five patents that Netlist owned. The US Company claimed that Samsung violated five Netlist standard essential patents by continuing to
supply products based on those designs after a licensing agreement between the two soured in mid-2020. Representatives for the companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Netlist stock soared 21% after the judgement was announced. The 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 “derive useful information from vast
amounts of data in a shorter period of time.” 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. Netlist had asked the jury for $404 million in damages. Samsung had argued that the patents were invalid and that its technology worked in a different way
than Netlist’s inventions. About Post Author David Richards David Richards has been writing about technology for more than 30 years. A former Fleet Street journalist, he wrote the Award
Winning Series on the Federated Ships Painters + Dockers Union for the Bulletin that led to a Royal Commission. He is also a Logie Winner for Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism with a
story called The Werribee Affair. In 1997, he built the largest Australian technology media company and prior to that the third largest PR company that became the foundation company for
Ogilvy PR. Today he writes about technology and the impact on both business and consumers.