Samsung files new lawsuit against Netlist in computer-memory patent fight

Samsung has asked a Delaware federal court to rule that it did not violate Netlist's patent rights in an ongoing dispute with the computer-memory company, which has already won more than $300 million from Samsung in a separate case over technology used in high-performance computing. In a lawsuit made public on Tuesday, Samsung asked the court to rule that its "memory modules" used in servers and other computer systems do not infringe a Netlist memory patent or to find that Netlist broke an obligation to offer it a license on fair terms. An East Texas jury awarded Netlist more than $303 million in damages in April after finding that Samsung's memory modules for high-performance computing infringed several Netlist patents related to data processing. South Korea-based Samsung asked the Delaware court to find that its memory modules do not infringe a Netlist patent issued last year covering a method of "handshaking" between memory controllers.