Samsung Sued for Patent Infringement on Contactless Payment Method
“RFCyber Corp. filed a complaint for patent infringement against defendants Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. … alleging that Samsung infringed its contactless payment method via its Samsung Pay service on its mobile devices,” reports Kirsten Errick in Law Street’s Tech.
“According to the plaintiff, Samsung has infringed at least claim 1 of the ’218 patent by having products with an ‘e-purse,’ allegedly using the plaintiff’s patented method. The ‘method comprising: providing a portable device including or communicating with a smart card pre-loaded with an emulator configured to execute a request from an e-purse applet and provide a response the e-purse applet is configured to expect, the portable device including a memory space loaded with a midlet that is configured to facilitate communication between the e-purse applet and a payment server over a wireless network, wherein the e-purse applet is downloaded and installed in the smart card when the smart card is in communication with the payment server…’ furthermore, the e-purse applet and the payment server communicate over a network to create a secure channel for various operations.”
