A federal jury in Marshall, Texas, has ordered Samsung Electronics to pay $118 million in damages to computer memory company Netlist. The lawsuit accused Samsung of willfully infringing on Netlist’s patented technology for high-performance memory products, according to a Reuters report.
This follows a similar 2023 lawsuit, where Netlist secured a $303 million judgment against Samsung. Earlier this year, in May, Netlist also won $445 million in damages from chipmaker Micron in a separate case.
The jury determined that Samsung intentionally violated Netlist’s patents, which could allow the court to triple the damages awarded.
Netlist, which filed the lawsuit in 2022, alleged that Samsung’s memory modules—used in cloud computing servers and other IT products—violated patents designed to enhance energy efficiency and accelerate large-scale data processing.
Samsung denied the allegations, asserting that its technology differs from Netlist’s innovations and challenged the validity of the patents. The tech giant has also filed a countersuit against Netlist in Delaware federal court, claiming that Netlist failed to properly license essential technology for maintaining international standards.
Neither Samsung nor Netlist has commented on the ruling.
