Samsung Electronics owes patent proprietor Pictiva Shows $191.4 million in damages for infringing two U.S. patents masking natural light-emitting diode expertise, a jury in Texas federal courtroom mentioned on Monday.
Pictiva satisfied the jury that a variety of Samsung gadgets violate Pictiva’s patent rights in expertise for enhancing the decision, brightness and energy effectivity of OLED shows.
Pictiva Managing Director Angela Quinlan mentioned in an announcement the decision “validates the power of the Pictiva mental property.”
Samsung Electronics mentioned it could enchantment.
“We intend to enchantment the decision associated to the 2 patents. We have now already filed a petition to invalidate the related patents, which is at the moment below evaluate by the US Patent and Trademark Workplace,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement.
The decision is certainly one of a number of current massive awards received by patent house owners suing Samsung in the identical Marshall, Texas, courtroom over expertise in its gadgets.
Eire-based Pictiva, a subsidiary of patent licensing firm Key Patent Improvements, owns a whole bunch of patents masking OLED expertise invented by photonics firm OSRAM within the early 2000s.
Pictiva alleged in its 2023 lawsuit that Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones, televisions, computer systems, wearables and different merchandise incorporate Pictiva’s expertise for bettering OLED shows. Samsung denied the allegations and argued the patents have been invalid.
