Earlier this month, a jury in East Texas determined that BOE Technology Group owes $66.8 million in damages for infringing technology covered by three patents owned by Longitude Licensing.
Longitude filed suit against BOE in November 2023, according to court records, alleging BOE, a display manufacturing company, had infringed patents covering semiconductor devices and methods for configuring pixel electrode orientations in LCD displays that are used in computers, monitors and televisions.
Andrea Fair of Miller Fair Henry, who was part of the team representing Longitude, issued a statement that she was “glad to have been part of assisting a great team” in demonstrating that “intellectual property rights must be respected.”
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap presided over the case that began with jury selection Jan. 9. The trial lasted four days, and jurors returned their verdict Jan. 15, finding Longitude had infringed three patents.
The unanimous panel awarded damages as a lump sum, finding Longitude is entitled to $29.7 million for infringement of one patent, $7.4 million for infringement of a second patent and $29.7 million for infringement of the third.
The jury also rejected arguments that the patents were invalid and found the infringement of all three patents was willful. Jurors were presented evidence that the parties engaged in “extensive meetings and presentations” where the technology was discussed more than three years before this lawsuit was filed.
A search of court records shows Longitude has three other patent infringement cases pending against BOE in the Eastern District of Texas. The case numbers for those disputes are 2:25-cv-00358 (filed April 8, 2025); 2:25-cv-00440 (filed April 25, 2025) and 2:26-cv-00019 (filed Jan. 9, 2026).
BOE’s lead lawyer did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Friday afternoon.
Longitude Licensing is represented by Aaron R. Fahrenkrog, Benjamin C. Linden, Emily Tremblay, Navin Ramalingam, Samuel J. LaRoque and William Jones of Robins Kaplan and Andrea Fair and Garrett C. Parish of Miller Fair Henry.
BOE Technology Group is represented by Leo L. Lam, Aseem Mehta, David J. Silbert, Emily A. Hasselberg and Gayatri Paranjape of Keker, Van Nest & Peters, C. Colette Corser, Carlos Duarte-Guevara, D. Brian Kacedon, Elizabeth Ferrill, James R. Barney, Jason Tulley, Jordan Cowger, Karthik Kumar, Min Yang, Qingyu Yin, Ryan T. Davies, Spencer Perkins and Yanyi Liu of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, Roger Craft and Eric Findlay of Findlay Craft, and George Cowden of Cowden Law Firm.
The case number is 2:23-cv-00515.