Samsung Owes $92 Million For ACR Patents Roku Beat Outright
Anonymous Media Research Holdings says a Texas jury validated its ACR patents, and a federal judge has now entered a judgment near $92.3 million against Samsung. Eleven days after Texas upheld that patent family, a California judge invalidated claims across seven of its patents and Roku won outright.
Read the full issue on ADOTAT →What the issue found
- Judge Gilstrap's August 14 amended judgment: $78,512,999 plus about $13.8 million in prejudgment interest, near $92.3 million total.
- Judge Chhabria invalidated claims across seven patents in the same family, including the one carrying 52 percent of Texas damages.
- Gilstrap denied Samsung's section 1292(b) request to send the eligibility conflict to the appeals court early.
- Samsung, LG, Vizio, Roku, Hisense and TCL still run ACR; no firmware change was ordered.
- Nielsen switched local TV to a one-minute qualifier on August 31 with no public MRC accreditation and no public impact data.
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