Plaintiff’s Lawyer on $63M Samsung Verdict: ‘The Courtroom is a Great Equalizer’

An East Texas jury on Tuesday found that Samsung Display Company willfully infringed on two screen display patents used in Samsung Galaxy phones, awarding an Irish company $62.7 million. 

After a six-day trial in Marshall federal court, the jury ordered Samsung to pay the patent owner, Solas OLED, a lump sum of $27.3 million for one patent and $35.4 million for another, which both relate to active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) functions used in OLED displays for Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy Note smartphones. U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas presided over the case.