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Samsung Electronics has failed to secure inter partes review at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board against a set of patents asserted by PayGeo, leaving the dispute to proceed in federal court.
On Jan. 27, 2026, the PTAB declined to institute five IPR petitions filed by Samsung targeting PayGeo's U.S. patents. The challenged patents are U.S. Patent Nos. 8,554,671, 10,796,296, 10,937,018, 11,087,307 and 12,014,347, which generally relate to systems and methods for mobile-based cash exchange and for preventing fraudulent financial transactions.
Samsung had petitioned the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to review all five patents, but the board found the petitions insufficient to warrant institution.
The PTAB rulings follow PayGeo's April 2025 filing of a patent infringement suit against Samsung Electronics in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. In that action, PayGeo alleges that Samsung infringes each of the five patents now at issue in the denied IPRs.
With administrative review off the table, Samsung will be required to press its noninfringement defenses and any invalidity arguments directly before the federal court. The burden for invalidating patents in district court is generally higher than at the PTAB, where claims can be canceled based on a preponderance of the evidence rather than the clear-and-convincing standard applied in federal litigation.
By PatenTrip
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