A federal jury in Marshall, Texas, on Friday awarded computer memory company NetList $118 million in damages in a patent lawsuit from Samsung Electronics over technology to improve data processing in high-performance memory products.

The decision follows a $303 million verdict against Samsung in a related case last year against Irvine, Calif.-based NetList.

Netlist also won $445 million from chipmaker Micron in May in a separate lawsuit over some of the same patents.

Spokesmen for Samsung and Netlist did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday’s decision. The jury also determined that Samsung’s infringement was willful, allowing the judge to triple the award.

Netlist sued Samsung in 2022, alleging that memory modules used in the Korean tech company’s cloud computing servers and other data-intensive technology infringed on its patents. NetList said its innovations increase the power efficiency of memory modules and enable users to “get useful information from vast amounts of data in a short period of time.”

Samsung denied the allegations, saying the patents were invalid and that its technology worked differently from Netlist’s inventions.

Samsung has also filed a related lawsuit in federal court in Delaware accusing NetList of breaching its obligation to offer fair licenses for technology required to comply with international standards.

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