ITC rules Samsung infringed on four Sharp patents, bans import of some LCDs
By Donald Melanson 
posted Nov 10th 2009 11:52AM
posted Nov 10th 2009 11:52AM
The US International Trade Commission already ruled in June of this year that Sharp had infringed on one patent held by Samsung, but it's now back with another ruling that finds Samsung violated no less than four LCD-related patents held by Sharp. Once again, the ITC has also barred Samsung from selling the infringing LCDs in the US (still not clear on exactly what's affected), but Samsung seems more than ready to comply with the ruling, saying that there will be "no impact on our business and our ability to meet market demand." For its part, Sharp simply says that the ruling has "made it clear that ITC has consistently supported Sharp's claim that LCD products of Samsung violated Sharp's patents" -- Samsung, meanwhile, says it has no plans to negotiate with Sharp on the issue, so let's just hope its workaround is more than a quick fix.
what what what rank me down
gladly
Suck my Sammy Sharp.
Time to go to the local Best Buy and harass the sales associates as to which Sammies are infringing and which ones aren't :-)
Yeah, enjoy watching the smoke come out. Just bring an umbrella for the flying brain matter
oh, so you're one of those people? best buy employees love you.
What a dumb article. It doesn't provide any useful information. How about waiting to dig up some facts, like what the patents are before reporting it. It is not as important to be first with no useful info, as it is to provide some value added.
Ahem, they weren't "first" either.
Initially, Korean firms were good at imitating. Then came a period when they started acquiring technologies from the west. In the last decade or so they had some innovations to their credit.
Now, Are they are going back to imitating illegally?...and not willing to pay for it?
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090324/167582/
Initially, Japanese firms were good at imitating. Then came a period when they started acquiring technologies from the west. In the last two decades or so they had some innovations to their credit.
Now, Are they are going back to imitating illegally?...and not willing to pay for it?
Does this mean Wal-Mart won't be carrying too many Vizio HDTVs anymore? Since Vizios are just repackaged Samsungs.
Your post is so inaccurate it's ridiculous. Vizio TVs often use panels made at the same factory as many LG televisions because Vizio's manufacturing partner shares the factory with LG. That's why a lot of Vizio TVs have the same panels as their LG siblings (i.e. VF551XVT uses the same panel as the 52" LH90 from LG)
Apple steals Nokia patents
Sammy steals Sharp patents
Intel screws everyone
What the heck is up with this industry???
Status quo I guess...
You have to figure, there are 6,796,184,307 people on Earth, the odds of someone thinking the same thing at the same time as you are fairly reasonable, someone coming up with the same idea as you in the same year is highly reasonable. Now one person decides this idea should be patented so they can make a profit from it, the other person decides, why patent it? Wouldn't it benefit everyone from being able to attain this technology and in the long run make things affordable for the consumer.
Take Apple in this case, sure they took some of Nokia's patents and used them, chances are they might have not known that they were patented since it was their first time ever making a phone. Now after the device has proved itself on the market, Nokia wants a piece of that action. But it was an idea someone decided to implement into the phone that was already thought up by one of the other 6 billion people on earth.
Same thing with Samsung and Sharp, sure Sharp is "entitled" to the patent claims, but are they really? I mean some of these ideas I come up with are just thoughts in my head then a few months later there is a working product across the world in China or Japan of the same exact thing I had thought of.
I say abolish the current patent system, re-structure so that the idea owner has a year to do what he needs to do to get the idea out in the open, and after that if he hasn't succeded in his business then other companies can use that same idea to benefit the consumer. A person could come up with a great new display design and go to someone like Samsung and sell them the tech, Samsung has a year to market it and manufacture it before anyone else can use it, and then it's far game to all the reverse engineers.
But ideas aren't strictly isolated to one individual, we all have ideas that some how materialize if we take action or not. Anyways...
The USPTO is worthless. Samsung LCDs are better than Sharp. This is just one of many cases where patents are harming innovation, not helping it.