A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas recently ruled that Chinese display panel manufacturer BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (BOE) infringed three LCD patents held by plaintiffs 138 East LCD Advancements Ltd. and Longitude Licensing Ltd., ordering BOE to pay $66.9 million (approximately RMB 466 million) in damages.

The lawsuit was filed by Longitude in November 2023, with the patents in question primarily concerning semiconductor devices and pixel electrode configuration methods in liquid crystal display technology. The complaint alleged that display screens used by BOE in products for companies like HP infringed these patents, with the underlying technology originally sourced from Japan's Seiko Epson.

On January 15, 2026, the jury reached a unanimous verdict finding BOE guilty of infringing all three LCD technology patents in question, with the infringement deemed “willful.” According to the ruling, BOE must pay over $29 million for each of the two patents and approximately $7.5 million for the third patent. The damages are to be paid as a lump-sum total of $66.9 million.

Notably, this ruling came shortly after BOE settled two separate OLED patent lawsuits in the Eastern District of Texas.