Samsung Seeks Patent Order a Day After ‘Litigation Standstill’ Pact Expires

Samsung seeks declaratory judgment that its TVs, monitors and displays don’t infringe a Polaris PowerLED Technologies July 2007 patent (7,239,087) on LED driver arrays, said a Friday complaint (in Pacer) in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. Polaris previously sued Samsung for infringing the patent, and the two sides signed a “litigation standstill agreement” that expired Thursday, it said. Samsung worries Polaris will now again file suit “and may mistakenly lead some observers to believe Polaris’s claims to be true,” it said. Samsung denies the allegations, it said: “Polaris is a patent-holding company whose primary, if not sole, business purpose is the acquisition, sale, licensing, and assertion of patents. Polaris’s actions have therefore created a substantial and concrete controversy between Polaris and Samsung that warrants declaratory judicial resolution.” Polaris didn’t comment.