Yet another patent troll wants to get paid by Samsung. Tau Ceti Ventures LLC has filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that the company infringed ten of its patents related to making displays brighter, preventing screen burn-in, improving battery life and reducing manufacturing costs.
Samsung allegedly used infringing display technology in the Galaxy S25, Galaxy Z Flip7, Galaxy Watch8, Galaxy Tab A9+, Galaxy Book4, and a whole line of smart TVs and monitors. Tau Ceti claims that Samsung knew about the patents or deliberately ignored their existence, which is quite a claim – so either it knew about them, or it deliberately didn’t want to, whatever that means.
Anyway, Tau Ceti naturally concludes that the breach was intentional. Thus, it is being requested that the court issue a judgment on the violation and award him compensation. Tau Seti also wants Samsung to pay his legal fees. Patent trolls have recently filed similar lawsuits against LG and HP.
A patent troll is a company that buys patents and then sues other companies for infringing them, without actually making a product or providing a service based on the patent they hold. So from that perspective, Tau Ceti Ventures LLC is doing what it should be doing – what it was created to do.
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