Samsung asked by jury to pay Netlist $303 million in computer-memory patent lawsuit

Samsung Electronics has been ordered to pay computer-memory company Netlist more than $303 million by a federal jury in Marshall, Texas for infringing several data processing patents.

After a 6-day trial, the jury determined that Samsung's "memory modules" for high-performance computing infringed all five Netlist patents that the Korean tech giant supposedly.

Netlist sued Samsung in 2021, alleging Samsung memory products used in cloud-computing servers and other data-intensive technology infringed on its patents.

The Irvine, California-based Netlist said its innovations increase the power efficiency of memory modules and allowed access to vast amounts of data in a shorter period.

According to a Netlist attorney, Samsung took its patented module technology after the companies had collaborated on another project.

Samsung insists that Netlist’s patents were invalid and that its technology worked in a different way than Netlist's inventions.

Netlist had asked for $404 million in damages.