Victory For Samsung

When a well-known patent pool operator slashed Samsung's royalties, while continuing to sublicense Samsung's patents, Samsung turned to Quinn Emanuel. Justice Crane of the New York Supreme Court ruled that the pool operator had breached its contractual obligations to Samsung, rejecting all of the pool operator's arguments to the contrary. The win earns Samsung more than $25 million in damages, tens of millions in future royalties, and a complete victory before trial.

In a patent pool, many different patentees who own patents related to a particular technology standard all contribute their patents and allow other companies to take a single sublicense that covers all the pooled technology. The administrator collects the royalties from those sublicenses and divvies them up among the patentees, after the administrator takes its cut.