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 upon ten of its patents relating to making displays brighter, preventing screen burn-in, improving battery life, and reducing manufacturing costs.
Samsung allegedly used the infringing display technology in the Galaxy S25, Galaxy Z Flip7, Galaxy Watch8, Galaxy Tab A9+, Galaxy Book4, and a whole range of smart TVs and monitors. Tau Ceti claims that Samsung was aware of the patents or intentionally 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 infringement was willful. Thus, it is requesting that the court issue a ruling on the infringement and award it damages. Tau Ceti also wants Samsung to pay for its legal fees. The patent troll has recently filed similar lawsuits against LG and HP.
A patent troll is a company that buys patents and then sues other companies for infringing upon them, without actually making any products or providing any services based on the patents it holds. So from that point of view, Tau Ceti Ventures LLC is just doing what it should be doing – what it was created to do.
Samsung Galaxy S25
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7
Samsung Galaxy Watch8
Source (in Korean)
