TECH - Netlist Wins $445 Million in Patent Violation Case | Benzinga
Netlist, Inc. (OTC: NLST) recently announced a legal victory in a patent infringement trial against Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) and its subsidiaries (Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc. and Micron Technology Texas LLC).
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas awarded Netlist a substantial $445 million damages award following a jury trial, which centered on two key Netlist patents - U.S. Patent Nos. 7,619,912 and 11,093,417. The products that were infringing the patent were all of Micron's DDR4 RDIMMs and DDR4 LRDIMMs.
The tribunal's unanimous verdict not only confirmed the infringement but also ruled that Micron had "wilfully infringed" these patents. The compensation granted covers the period from April 2021 to May 2024 for the '912 patent and from August 2021 to May 2024 for the '417 patent.
NLST highlighted that this legal win marks the second successful case in a relatively short period where a global semiconductor giant has been found to wilfully infringe Netlist's patents.
In 2023, Samsung was found guilty of wilfully infringing NLST's patent technologies, such as HBM and DDR5 that form the ...