Harvard University Files Lawsuit Against Samsung Electronics for Patent Infringement

TapTechNews August 7th news, according to comprehensive reports from Bloomberg Law and Reuters, Harvard University filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District Court of Texas, USA on Monday this week, accusing Samsung Electronics of infringing on two patents in the field of microprocessor and memory manufacturing.

TapTechNews learned from the lawsuit that Professor Roy G. Gordon from the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University and others are the inventors of these two patents, and the Harvard University authorities are the assignees of these patents and have the complete rights to the corresponding patents.

These two patents involve deposition methods for cobalt- and tungsten-containing thin films, namely Cobalt nitride layer for copper interconnects and its formation method and Vapor deposition of tungsten nitride, and Harvard University claims that this thin film is crucial for key components of many products such as computers and mobile phones.

Harvard University believes that in the foundry process of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen1 processor and the like by Samsung Electronics, it has infringed on Harvard University's patent related to the preparation of cobalt nitride thin film, involving products such as Samsung S22 smartphones.

And when Samsung is producing LPDDR5X and other memories, it has practiced each element of at least one claim in Harvard University's tungsten layer deposition patent without authorization, and Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip5 folding screen phone uses the related LPDDR5X memory product.

Harvard University demands that Samsung Electronics stop the infringement and pay an unspecified amount of monetary compensation in the lawsuit.