March 07, 2022
Samsung and an Irish company that accused the technology giant of infringing screen display patents have come to an agreement to end the case, less than half a year after Samsung lost various challenges to a finding that it owes around $77.7 million.
October 25, 2021
Samsung lost various challenges to a Texas federal jury's finding that it owes around $77.7 million for infringing an Irish company's screen display patents, even though the Patent Trial and Appeal Board threw out two of the three patents-at-issue.
April 22, 2021
Samsung is arguing that a Texas federal jury should have never found it infringed an Irish company's screen display patents to the tune of $62.7 million, arguing that at least a new trial is warranted in the case.
March 26, 2021
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has thrown out an Irish company's touch screen patent just a month after a jury in the Eastern District of Texas found that the patent was valid and that Samsung had infringed it to the tune of $35.4 million in damages.
March 08, 2021
Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap's first patent jury trial since November ended Monday with a jury finding that Samsung Display Co. Ltd. willfully infringed Solas OLED Ltd.'s screen display patents and awarding $62.7 million in damages — an amount the judge could increase because of the willfulness finding.
November 20, 2020
Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap announced Friday he's postponing all jury trials until March, a decision he was reluctant to make but felt necessary due to the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Texas and the travel restrictions out-of-state attorneys and witnesses were facing.
November 18, 2020
Samsung on Wednesday asked to delay by three months an Eastern District of Texas patent trial scheduled to begin Dec. 4, citing concerns over COVID-19 after a recent trial in the district ended in a mistrial after 15 participants tested positive for the novel coronavirus.