SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has breathed new life into a 2010 antitrust suit between Samsung Electronics Co. and Panasonic Corp.
The three-judge panel ruled Friday that Samsung’s suit, which accuses Panasonic of using its patents to hijack the market for certain digital memory cards, was filed within the four-year statute of limitations that governs federal antitrust law. The unanimous ruling authored by U.S. Circuit Judge Ronald Gould reverses a 2012 decision from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White that the suit had been filed too late.
