The Liberty Times Digital Newspaper, August 11, 2024
Harvard University can’t bear it anymore and sues Samsung for chip patent infringement
Wu Meng-feng/Editor
[Financial Channel/Comprehensive Report] This is not a patent lawsuit filed by a patent troll to extort money! Harvard University in the United States accused South Korea’s Samsung of infringing chip manufacturing patents and demanded compensation.
In the past five years, Samsung has faced more than 400 patent infringement lawsuits in the United States, involving various fields from semiconductor manufacturing to display manufacturing and smartphones. In the list this time, it also has an allegation from Harvard University accusing that Samsung infringed on its chip manufacturing patents.
Samsung has been sued in Texas federal court by Harvard University, which accuses Samsung of infringing its chip manufacturing patents, wherein Samsung’s manufacturing method of microprocessors and memory chips infringe two patents invented by Harvard chemistry professor Roy Gordon.
The lawsuit further alleges that the patents protect novel processes and materials for depositing thin films containing cobalt or tungsten metals, which are critical components for a wide range of products, including computers and cell phones.
Harvard University claims that Samsung has used these patented processes to develop smartphone processors and memory products. In addition to an order to stop Samsung from infringing these patents, Harvard University also filed a request for “unspecified amount” compensations to the court, and the subsequent development needs to be observed.
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