November 25, 2024
Samsung has reached a settlement with patent owner Techiya, a deal that comes after Samsung defeated the $300 million patent infringement suit based on attorney misconduct by former in-house counsel that a Texas federal judge called "repugnant to the rule of law," according to a motion filed Sunday.
August 29, 2024
A Texas federal judge on Thursday awarded Samsung $108,674 in court costs stemming from a patent infringement suit filed by the company's former in-house patent attorneys — a case he tossed earlier this year based on unclean hands — and asked for more information on costs still in dispute.
June 13, 2024
Samsung told a Texas federal judge that it plans to ask for about $26 million in attorney fees after he threw out infringement litigation that hinged on confidential documents that he ruled were stolen by the tech giant's former employees.
May 24, 2024
A Texas federal judge has thrown out a patent suit against Samsung seeking more than $300 million, holding that former in-house Samsung patent attorneys stole the company's confidential documents and used them to aid the patent owner, in misconduct he called "repugnant to the rule of law."
March 04, 2024
Chief U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has signed off on a magistrate judge's recommendation to send a Texas trade secrets fight between Samsung and two tech companies operated by former Samsung attorneys to court, denying bids for an early win brought by counterclaim defendants Staton Techiya and Synergy IP.
February 22, 2024
Samsung plans to ask a Texas court to force a patent litigation business to disclose communications with litigation funders ahead of a trial next month over whether the tech giant's former in-house counsel stole trade secrets. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
February 14, 2024
A Texas federal judge has backed a magistrate judge's recommendation to resolve Samsung's claims of misconduct against two of its former in-house intellectual property attorneys through a bench trial.
January 08, 2024
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that Samsung showed that all the challenged claims of a Staton Techiya network monitoring patent are invalid because it was too obvious to warrant patent protection.
January 03, 2024
A Texas federal magistrate judge on Wednesday recommended resolving Samsung's claims of misconduct against two of its former in-house intellectual property attorneys through a bench trial, as the electronics giant is set to face patent infringement claims brought by the attorneys' new company at a jury trial later this month.
December 04, 2023
A Texas federal court has ordered the former head of Samsung's intellectual property center and founder of Synergy IP Corp. to attend a January patent trial between the two companies after he missed a November hearing on Samsung's motion for sanctions.