July 01, 2020
Samsung and patent adversary Image Processing Technologies said Wednesday that they have settled a lawsuit over face detection technology, averting a July 6 jury trial before U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, who earlier this week refused to delay the proceeding despite Texas' spike in coronavirus cases.
June 29, 2020
Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Monday rejected a patent owner's request to postpone next week's jury trial in its case against Samsung as COVID-19 cases surge in Texas, saying that doing so would be unfair to Samsung and delay the case for many months.