Jennifer Truelove, Samuel Baxter and Kevin Burgess, along with the Irell & Manella trial team led by Jason Sheasby, secured a $303M patent infringement verdict against Samsung. Since then, there have been several pieces of media coverage, including:
- “Samsung Hit With $303 Million Jury Verdict in Computer-Memory Patent Lawsuit” Reuters (April 21, 2023) “The jury in Marshall, Texas determined after a six-day trial that Samsung's "memory modules" for high-performance computing willfully infringed all five patents that Netlist accused the Korean tech giant of violating.”
- “Netlist Wins $303 Million in Patent Damages From Samsung (2)” Bloomberg Law (April 21, 2023) “Jurors in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Friday found that Samsung violated five Netlist standard essential patents by continuing to supply products based on those designs after a licensing agreement between the two soured in mid-2020.”
- “Samsung Owes $303M Over Chip Patents, Texas Jury Finds” Law360 (April 21, 2023) “After deliberating for just about three hours, jurors arrived at a unanimous conclusion that Samsung owed Irving, California-based Netlist a total of $303.15 million for infringing a total of five patents, according to an eight-page verdict sheet. Jurors also indicated that they had agreed with Netlist's argument that Samsung's use of the technology was "willful," a finding that could potentially as much as triple Samsung's liability in the case, at the discretion of U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, who oversaw the case.”
- “Marshall Federal Jury Orders Samsung To Pay $303.15 Million for Patent Infringement” The Marshall News Messenger (April 21, 2023) “After about three hours of deliberating Friday, a federal jury in Marshall determined that Samsung — the largest memory chip maker in the world — must pay Netlist $303.15 million for infringing five of its patents related to computer memory technology.”
- “Texas Juries Award a Combined $582M in Two Patent Trials Friday” The Texas Lawbook (April 24, 2023) “The jury awarded $33.1 million in damages for infringement of one patent, $147.2 million for the infringement of two other patents and $122.7 million for infringement of two additional patents, according to the jury charge.”
- “Federal Jury in Texas Awards Netlist Over $300M in Patent Infringement Suit Against Samsung” com (April 25, 2023) “Following a trial presided over by U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas, the jury on April 21 found Netlist had prevailed in asserting claims of patent infringement for all five of the patents they alleged were violated by Samsung’s making, selling, and manufacturing of similar products.”
- “300 Million Reasons Why Patent Owners Love Litigating in Texas” IAM (April 25, 2023) “According to the verdict form, the jury determined that Samsung’s high-performance computing memory module products wilfully infringed five Netlist patents – and the assets were not invalid.”