Samsung and its lawyers at Baker Botts must have felt awfully lonely by the time trial began last week in Spanish antenna company Fractus S.A.’s patent infringement suit against the electronics giant. Out of 10 defendants originally facing Fractus’s allegations that they infringed patents covering cell phone antenna technology, only Samsung stuck it out to face the jury.
Samsung’s go-it-alone strategy failed to pay dividends on Monday, when a federal jury in Tyler, Texas, awarded Fractus more than $23 million in damages, finding that Samsung willfully infringed the Barcelona-based company’s patents. If upheld, the verdict could cost Samsung close to $80 million in trebled damages.
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