Subj : Samsung is facing a huge fine for infringing on memory patents
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Apr 25 2023 15:45:04

Samsung is facing a huge fine for infringing on memory patents

Date:
Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:26:05 +0000

Description:
Netlist awarded $303 million in settlement from Samsung, which failed to 
comply with memory patents.

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Samsung is set to pay out $303 million in a settlement to California-based 
SSD and modular memory subsystem maker Netlist for infringing the companys 
patents. 

Initially accused of infringing on three of the companys patents, Netlist 
later doubled its allegation to cover six patents as it took Samsung to 
court. 

Following an almost week-long trial, Samsung was found to have breached 
Netlists patents and ordered to pay $303.15 million. Samsung fined for 
infringing on patents 

The patents in question are 506: Memory Module With Timing-Controlled Data 
Buffering; 339: Memory Module With Controlled Byte-Wise Buffers; 918: 
Flash-DRAM Hybrid Memory Module; 054: Flash-DRAM Hybrid Memory Module, 060: 
Method and Apparatus for Optimizing Driver Load in a Memory Package; and its 
continuation, 160: Memory Package with Optimized Driver Load and Method of 
Operation. 

Under scrutiny from Netlist and the Texas court were Samsungs DDR4 LRDIMM, 
DDR5 UDIMM, SODIMM, RDIMM, HBM2, HBM2E, and HBM3 technologies. Read more 

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Although Samsung was found, for the most part, guilty, the court only ruled 
in favor of three-quarters of the $404 million for which Netlist had claimed, 
accounting for five quarters worth of damages. 

Patents 060 and 160 ended up being the most costly for Samsung, accounting 
for $162 million of the total fine. A touch under $147.5 million went towards 
patents 054 and 918, while the 339 patent was awarded a value of $33 million. 

Netlist CEO, CK Hong, explained : The jury verdict left no doubt that Samsung 
not only willfully infringed Netlist patents, but currently uses Netlist 
technology without a license on strategic products which collectively 
represent the future of Samsung's memory business, adding that the company 
was pleased with the outcome. 

Samsung did not immediately respond to TechRadar Pro s request for comment on 
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