Sony and Samsung to Cross-License Patents
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Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) and Samsung Electronics (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday they had agreed to share patents on basic technology to speed up
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.   005930.KS on Friday said it plans to introduce a line of   digital music players and a download service, under an   agreement with privately held media provider MusicNet.
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Samsung Electronics has replied to a&#160;patent-infringement lawsuit filed against it by Sharp&#160;by lodging complaints of its own with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Tokyo District Court, it said Thursday.Samsung filed the U.S. complaint on Dec. 21 and alleged that Sharp&#39;s LCD products infringe upon four of its U.S. patents. The patents were not detailed in Samsung&#39;s statement. It asked the trade regulator to launch an investigation into the complaints and, as is typical in such cases, block Sharp from importing into the U.S. products that contain the LCDs in question. Such products could include TVs, monitors, laptop PCs, and cell phones.The ITC will now examine the complaint and decide whether to move forward with a formal investigation.Samsung followed the U.S. complaint with a complaint lodged in Tokyo on Wednesday in which it alleged that LCD televisions sold by Sharp in Japan incorporate LCD modules that infringe upon two of Samsung&#39;s Japanese patents. As in the U.S. complaint, Samsung asked the court to halt manufacturing and sales of the infringing products in Japan.On Dec. 12,&#160;Sharp filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung&#160;in the Seoul Central District Court. The lawsuit alleges the LCD modules and televisions manufactured and/or sold by Samsung in South Korea infringe upon three Sharp patents. The Korean patents concern technology that allows high brightness and high-speed response as well as a wide viewing angle, Sharp said in a statement at the time.The lawsuit was the second filed by Sharp against Samsung.On Aug. 6, Sharp filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas alleging LCD modules manufactured by Samsung and LCD TVs, computer monitors and mobile phones that incorporate the modules infringed on its U.S. patents: 4,649,383 , 5,760,855 , 6,052,162 , 7,027,024, and 7,057,689 .Samsung said Thursday that it is also pursuing lawsuits against Sharp in Delaware and Texas.
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Rival mobile telephony vendors are settling their court battle with a cross-licensing agreement.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission said it agreed to Samsungâs request to investigate Sharp for allegedly infringing liquid crystal display patents.
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Sony Corp., the world&#39;s second-largest consumer electronics maker, and Samsung Electronics Co., the world&#39;s second-largest chip maker, said Tuesday they have agreed to share about 24,000 patents, fortifying an alliance between two of Asia&#39;s biggest
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Nov. 19, 2004 -- NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:NVDA) and Intel Corporation today announced the companies have signed a broad, multi-year patent cross-license agreement
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Swedish telecom equipment maker  Ericsson (ERICb.ST) and Japan's electronics giant Sony (6758.T)  will expand their cooperation beyond cell phones to mobile and  broadband TV, an Ericsson official said on Thursday.
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Sony Corp  will look beyond its  current partnership in flat panels with South Korea's Samsung  Electronics  and may tie up with other firms, the  Mainichi newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Share and share alike to save the planet A number of big name tech firms including IBM, Sony and Nokia have joined forces to work on a patent-sharing plan, dubbed Eco-Patents Commons.â¦
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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. covering a variety of hardware and software products, the companies said Thursday.
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Sony Corporation and Samsung Electronics have agreed to share patents on technology used in the development of new products. The agreement will involve a wide range of commercial licenses but will not include
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Microsoft Corp.  and South Korea's LG Electronics  said on Wednesday they have entered into a patent cross-license agreement.
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Pioneer has sued Samsung in the United States over alleged patent infringement involving plasma displays used primarily in television sets. The two companies were in licensing talks that apparently fell through, prompting Pioneer to file a lawsuit.
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Ericsson/Samsung, Visto/Seven settle differences Two long-running patent disputes came to an end today with Ericsson and Samsung agreeing to license each other's technology, while Seven agreed to pay Visto for use of its intellectual property.â¦
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- SanDisk Corp  said it signed a patent  cross-license agreement with PNY Technologies to settle patent  cases it filed against PNY regarding flash memory products.
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(InfoWorld) - Seven Networks agreed to license patents from Visto, settling a dispute between the companies over push e-mail patents. In addition to the licensing agreement, the companies have settled all legal actions against each other. The two have been battling over patents for three years. In late December, a court upheld an earlier jury decision that found that Seven had infringed on three Visto patents. But the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had already made an initial ruling that one of the patents in question was invalid. At the time, Seven said that it expected the USPTO to make its final decision during the time it appealed the court ruling. Instead, Seven has worked with Visto to settle the matter. Their dispute was one of many in the push e-mail market, an indication of the perceived potential for the industry. The battle follows the high-profile case between Research In Motion and NTP. That suit threatened to shut down the popular BlackBerry push e-mail service used by executives and government workers, butÂ RIM ultimately settled with NTP. Visto licenses patents from NTP. Visto is also battling patent infringement suits against other push e-mail providers, includingÂ Good Technology,Â RIM, andÂ Microsoft. Infowave Software was also the subject of an earlier patent suit from Visto but the company ultimately agreed to license Visto's software in 2004.