Samsung Electronics: Patent Royalty Recovery Exceeding $100 Million
How John S. Kim led Samsung Electronics' claim through the DVD6C licensing group against a consumer-electronics company that had underreported sales volumes, recovering more than USD 100 million.
The matter
Through the DVD6C licensing group, John S. Kim led Samsung Electronics' claim against a major consumer-electronics company for royalties that had been underpaid because product volumes were underreported.
The work
He spent more than a year developing the evidence of the underpayments and documenting the factual and contractual grounds for the claim, then directed outside counsel through the arbitration. The documented role is the direction of outside counsel — not personal appearance as trial counsel.
The outcome
The claim recovered more than USD 100 million, the largest royalty recovery Samsung Electronics' Consumer Electronics Division had received at the time. This is a historical in-house achievement at a former employer. It is not a recovery obtained by the present law office for a current client.
Why it was demanding
A royalty claim of this kind begins as an accounting discrepancy that the counterparty is not obliged to explain. The work that mattered was turning under-reported volumes into a documented, enforceable claim — evidence first, argument second.
Relevance today
Licensors are routinely paid less than they are owed, and rarely because anyone says so openly. The Law Office of John S. Kim advises on technology licensing and intellectual property transactions and on dispute strategy where license revenue is at stake.