Jury Returns Verdict for Headwater Research in Second Samsung Trial

In January 2025, an Eastern District of Texas jury sided with Samsung in litigation from Headwater Research LLC, finding that the defendant had not infringed the tried claims from a single patent. Now, a trial in a second case between the same parties has ended with a verdict for the plaintiff: On April 25, a different jury returned a verdict that Samsung had infringed claims from two additional patents and had not shown them to be invalid, awarding $278.8M in damages. The trial came shortly after the court denied a Samsung motion challenging Headwater’s standing to sue, after rejecting a related standing defense in the earlier-tried suit as well.