Samsung is quite active in its conservative progress towards charging technologies and has been ordered to pay $192 million for infringing on wireless charging patents for its Galaxy smartphones.
Back in 2022, a company named Mojo Mobility developed wireless charging technologies and filed a lawsuit against Samsung in 2022. It claimed that the company infringed five of its patents in wireless charging implementations.
According to the filed lawsuit, since 2016, the Korean tech company has been using the patented developments without even any valid authorization. It has come to know that the company has implemented the technologies in phones, smartwatches, and more product categories.
Noticeably, Samsung’s initial payment of $67.5 million and a $1.50 royalty per Galaxy phone was overturned; the reason behind this was confusion over royalty types. During the first trial, there was confusion between the terms “running royalties” and “lump-sum royalties.” Therefore, the court declared invalid the sentence and ordered a new trial. Now the company has to pay $192 million for infringement of wireless charging patents.
A couple of months ago, the Korean tech company filed a lawsuit to invalidate the five impacted wireless charging patents. Steven Pollinger, head of the US trial firm McKool Smith, stated, “Based upon Mojo Mobility’s detailed oppositions to these IPR petitions, the PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board) denied 15 of the 18 IPR petitions levied against the five patents upon which jury trial was had.”
This means that if Samsung wants to continue using wireless charging, it has to pay $192 million to Mojo Mobility for wireless charging patent infringement.
