Samsung To Seek $26 Million in Costs For Techiya Patent Lawsuit

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to seek up to $26 million in costs and attorneys’ fees for defending itself against a patent suit found to have “unclean hands,” the company said in urging a Texas federal judge to set a deadline for it to file the bill of costs and related motion.

The dispute is an “exceptional case involving bad faith” by two former Samsung attorneys running the patent licensing firm used by Staton Techiya LLC to assert infringement allegations against the electronics giant, according to a motion filed June 12 in the US District Court for the Eastern District ...