Synergy IP Corporation ("Synergy IP") is a privately held South Korean IP-monetization company formed in June 2020, with its principal office at Maeheon-ro 54-1, Seocho-gu, Seoul. It is co-owned by Seungho Ahn, a former head of Samsung Electronics' IP Center, Sungil Cho, a former Samsung in-house patent attorney, and one other Korean individual. Synergy has no U.S. office. Filings describe a very small headcount (Ahn, Cho, and a single finance manager). No public revenue, employee-count, or valuation figures are available from a reliable source.
Synergy does not make or sell products. Its stated business is "IP transactions and other IP-related business such as licensing," and it acts as a licensing agent for third-party patent owners. Its principal arrangement was an exclusive license (with sublicensing rights) to the Staton Techiya, LLC patent portfolio, covering earphone/earpiece and voice-recognition technologies, including "always-on headwear recording" and audio-recording patents. A separate Patent Sale and Licensing Retention Agreement with Blaze Mobile appears in the record.
Patent-litigation posture: Synergy is a non-practicing entity — a pure plaintiff-side licensor. The tracked data show 1 case, 1 as plaintiff and 0 as defendant. Unified Patents classifies Synergy IP Corp as an NPE/patent assertion entity; RPX describes it as a "Korean monetization firm." It also appeared as a counterclaim defendant after Samsung asserted affirmative claims against it. The sole asserted case was filed in the plaintiff-favorable U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division.
Notable case: Staton Techiya, LLC et al. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al. (E.D. Tex., filed Nov. 4, 2021, No. 2:21-cv-00413) asserted roughly ten earphone/audio patents against Bixby-enabled Galaxy smartphones and Galaxy Buds, with a consolidated second complaint (2:22-cv-00053). The court disqualified Ahn and Cho, found unclean hands tied to Synergy's acquisition of Samsung privileged information, and dismissed the patent claims with prejudice in May 2024; Synergy was dropped as a plaintiff. Samsung's counterclaims against Synergy, Ahn, and Cho were severed into Samsung Electronics v. Synergy IP Corp. (2:24-cv-00100) and stayed.