Category: Samsung
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BREAKING: ZTE-Samsung patent dispute ends as key UPC Mannheim case is withdrawn; several courts supported ZTE’s FRAND rate
ZTE and Samsung have presumably settled their multijurisdictional dispute through a license agreement. A UPC case that would likely have led to an injuntion against Samsung has been withdrawn by mutual consent.
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Three-year prison sentence confirmed for ex-Samsung IP head over trade secret misappropriation
Seungho Ahn, who headed up Samsung’s IP unit for nine years, has been sentenced to three years in prison for the misappropriation of trade secrets relating to Samsung’s patent strategy, including using them in a U.S. patent infringement lawsuit.
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BREAKING: InterDigital inks new Dell patent licensing deal, reveals fresh Brazilian suits against Disney
InterDigital today released its Q3 2026 report, revealing a new deal with Dell, new suits against Disney in Brazil, details of its arbitration cases with Samsung and Lenovo, and a date for its UK hearing against Tesla.
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UPC Mannheim LD encourages Samsung to take license from ZTE as injunction looms large: tipping point may be reached shortly
Samsung faces an uphill battle at next month’s UPC Mannheim hearing against ZTE, which is on the winning track with respect to the technical merits as well as FRAND.
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Samsung and Pictiva settle OLED patent dispute that saw $191M Texas jury verdict followed by PTAB invalidation
The two parties have jointly moved to dismiss litigation in the Eastern District of Texas.
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Federal Circuit distinguishes impossibility from indefiniteness, affirms Samsung invalidity win on enablement grounds
The Federal Circuit upheld Samsung’s invalidity win, but shifted the basis from indefiniteness to lack of enablement.
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Netlist adds new ITC complaint against Micron, Broadcom, Google, and Nvidia; “intends to rely on… Samsung” to prove domestic industry
After settling with Netlist last month, Samsung agreed to provide “certain information… to use in future ITC actions against third parties”.
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Samsung handed third straight win at UPC as Munich LD revokes Maxell’s Galaxy content-casting patent
The UPC’s Munich LD has revoked a Maxell patent covering phone-to-TV content casting for lack of novelty, dismissing its infringement suit against Samsung’s Galaxy lineup and awarding Samsung €620,000.
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AST-sold patents on the loose again as Samsung faces Texas DRAM complaint
A number of U.S. lawsuits have been filed in recent months involving patents sold to PAEs under AST’s “catch-and-release” model.
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Nokia inks new patent licensing deals with Chinese TV makers
In a blog post today, the Head of Nokia’s Consumer Electronics licensing program, Philippe Lanet, said the agreements cover the use of Nokia’s technologies in their video-enabled devices.