Samsung SDS Co., Ltd. (KRX: 018260; formerly Samsung Data Systems) is the IT services and digital logistics arm of South Korea's Samsung Group. Headquartered at Samsung SDS Tower in Songpa-gu, Seoul, it was founded in 1985 and is publicly listed on the Korea Exchange, with Samsung Electronics and Samsung C&T as major shareholders. Public sources put its workforce at roughly 11,200–11,300 employees, 2025 revenue at about KRW 13.9 trillion (~US$9.8 billion), and market capitalization in the US$8–11 billion range.
Business. Samsung SDS is an operating company with two reportable segments. Its IT Services segment provides cloud services (the Samsung Cloud Platform), system integration, IT consulting and outsourcing, data-center operations, security solutions, and enterprise AI software such as the Brightics analytics platform, Brity Copilot, and Brity RPA. Its Logistics segment runs end-to-end freight, supply-chain, and forwarding services through the Cello and Cello Square digital logistics platforms, serving manufacturing, finance, healthcare, and retail customers across Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Patent-litigation posture. Samsung SDS is a defendant, not a plaintiff, in our tracked data: 1 case as defendant, 0 as plaintiff. The company is a well-resourced operating company defending against a patent-infringement suit, consistent with its role as a large Samsung affiliate rather than a patent assertion entity.
Notable case. The sole tracked matter is Manufacturing Resources International, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al. (2:22-cv-00320), filed August 19, 2022, in the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler Division, referred to Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne). Plaintiff MRI, an Atlanta-based manufacturer of outdoor digital displays, accused Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDS, and their U.S. affiliates of infringing five patents covering cooling systems for outdoor/semi-outdoor electronic displays used in digital signage and kiosks. The same dispute spawned an ITC investigation (337-TA-1331), in which the ITC preliminarily found no violation by Samsung, and multiple inter partes review petitions by Samsung challenging MRI's patents. Samsung SDS's inclusion appears tied to its U.S. affiliate's role in distributing or servicing Samsung display products rather than to its core IT/logistics operations.