NetList Inc (NLST)

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The #00463 trial that was already won (with a $303M award) was about the infringement of certain patents. That trial took place because previously, Scarsi ruled that Samsung breached the JDLA and Netlist properly ended it.

Then the Ninth Circuit ordered Scarsi to re try the breach of contract case. Now the jury in the retrial has affirmed Scarsi’s original ruling and said that indeed, Samsung was in breach.

I don’t believe that there will be any additional monetary awards other than the $303M.

But this ruling lets Gilstrap give final ruling on the bench trial and set final licensing fee royalty rates against Samsung.

This BOC ruling is huge. Now all we need is the CAFC to overrule the PTAB decisions on NLST patents and this could truly be off to the races.