Samsung Loses Bid to Overturn $303 Million Texas Patent Verdict

A Texas judge refused Samsung Electronic Co.'s request to throw out a $303 million patent-infringement award to computer parts maker Netlist Inc.

Judge Rodney Gilstrap found that a federal jury had sufficient evidence to support its decision and that allegedly prejudicial remarks lawyers made during the trial didn’t warrant a do-over.

“The verdict on infringement is not against the great weight of the evidence, and the court is not persuaded that Samsung has been unduly or unfairly prejudiced by Netlist’s arguments,” Gilstrap said in a sealed July 12 order denying the South Korean conglomerate’s bid for judgment as a matter ...