East Texas Jury Returns Verdict for Pictiva After Samsung Seeks Mistrial

An Eastern District of Texas jury has awarded Key Patent Innovations Limited (KPI) and Pictiva Displays International Limited over $191M against Samsung for the infringement of three claims from two former OSRAM patents. The jury found nine other tried claims (from three additional patents) not proven infringed, the three infringed claims not proven invalid, and the infringement here to have been willful. After closing arguments, Samsung filed a motion for a mistrial based on the conduct of plaintiff’s litigation counsel, whose closing argument, per that motion, “devolved into baseless, high-volume, animated attacks on the character of Samsung and its counsel—and inappropriately invoked Christian Scripture, to boot”.