In the US, a court found that some Samsung devices infringe two patents of Pictiva Displays on OLED display technology, and ordered them to pay $191.4 million. The manufacturer disagrees with the decision and said it would appeal.
In the US, a court found that some Samsung devices infringe two patents of Pictiva Displays on OLED display technology, and ordered them to pay $191.4 million. The manufacturer disagrees with the decision and said it would appeal.
As reported by Reuters, the verdict was made in federal court in Marshall, Texas, in a case where Pictiva claimed that Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones, TVs, laptops, and wearables use patented approaches to increasing the resolution, brightness, and energy efficiency of OLED panels.
The defendant’s position was standard for such disputes: the company disagrees with neither the court’s findings nor the scope of the plaintiff’s rights and has already filed a petition with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to invalidate the disputed patents. Pictiva called the decision a confirmation of the strength of its intellectual property portfolio.
Pictiva owns hundreds of OLED patents, many of which date back to the early 2000s, when photonics company OSRAM launched the lawsuit. The lawsuit against Samsung was filed in 2023. The Korean manufacturer responded by insisting that there was no infringement and that the patents themselves should be revoked. Similar cases in the same Texas court have already resulted in large payouts for Samsung, making the site a hotbed of patent litigation in the electronics industry.
An important nuance for the market: despite the high amount, the current decision is not yet final. An appeal may change or overturn the verdict, and a patent review at the USPTO may narrow or even eliminate the basis of Pictiva’s claims. At the same time, for large vendors like Samsung, such processes are a signal of the increasing cost of patent compliance in key technologies for the industry like OLED, which affects R&D strategy, licensing and, ultimately, the cost of devices.
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