Truesight Communications Sues Samsung Over UFS 4.0 Flash Storage

Truesight Communications LLC has expanded its second litigation campaign, launched in March 2024 with a suit against Transcend Information, with a case against familiar defendant Samsung (2:25-cv-00759) in the Eastern District of Texas. The sole asserted patent generally relates to a "kiosk for transferring content to a secure digital (SD) card", with Samsung accused of infringement through the provision of over the provision of various devices (e.g., laptops, smartphones, tablets) that implement UFS 4.0 flash storage. Trial against Samsung in Truesight Communications's first litigation campaign is currently set for early October.

Comprising a family of one, the asserted patent (8,977,783) issued in March 2015 with an estimated priority date in October 2009. The named inventors—Daniel V. Bolstad, Mark P. Hahn, and Joseph P. Zipperer—each having been employed with "media-on-demand platform" provider MOD SystemsIncorporated—passed the patent through other entities,