November 20, 2023
A Texas magistrate judge has recommended U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap deny an early win for companies Staton Techiya and Synergy IP, run by one of Samsung's former top in-house patent attorneys, against Samsung's claims that they misappropriated trade secrets, due to a "genuine dispute of material facts."
November 06, 2023
A Texas magistrate judge said Monday that infringement claims brought against Samsung by a company run by one of Samsung's former top in-house patent attorneys should go to trial, finding there was a genuine dispute of fact over all three patents the South Korean giant requested pretrial judgment on.
August 14, 2023
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has sided with arguments from Samsung to wipe out claims from a pair of audio device technology patents, which were picked up by a company run by one of the South Korean giant's former top in-house patent attorneys.
January 04, 2023
A smart speaker technology patent owner and a licensee have asked a Texas federal court to force Samsung to disclose information regarding licensing negotiations that took place while one of the tech giant's former in-house attorneys led its intellectual property division.
November 16, 2022
A Texas magistrate judge has granted Samsung's bid to disqualify two of its former in-house intellectual property attorneys from helping a patent owner assert infringement claims against Samsung's smart speaker Bixby, finding Wednesday that the attorneys were keyed into the technology giant's confidential IP strategy for the system at issue.
September 06, 2022
Samsung has asked a Texas federal judge to disqualify its former top in-house intellectual property attorney from participating in a suit over smart speaker technology being pursued by the lawyer's new patent-rights venture.
July 12, 2022
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal's new guidelines for so-called Fintiv denials played a part in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision to grant Samsung's request to institute reviews for two patents being asserted in a trial before Texas federal judge Rodney Gilstrap next year.