Samsung countersuing Sharp on LCD patents
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics  , the world's top maker of large-size liquid crystal  display panels, said on Thursday it was countersuing Japan's  Sharp Corp  for patent infringement.
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Alcatel has accused Microsoft of infringing seven of its U.S. patents. The patents describe how to implement fast-forward and rewind functions in digital video streams, among other things.
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Samsung and Sony have signed a five-year cross-licensing agreement covering a wide range of patents for digital products. The agreement should reduce the potential for disputes
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Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp  will begin selling a 108-inch LCD television later this year,  executives told the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday.
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Japanese electronics rivals Toshiba and Sharp are joining forces in the liquid crystal display business, company officials said Friday, the latest development in the intensifying competition in flat-panel TVs.
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Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it filed a complaint with American authorities over alleged unfair trade practices by Japanese rival Sharp Corp., fueling an intensifying legal battle over flat panel technology.
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CHIBA, JAPAN -- Sharp unveiled a 65-inch LCD television at the opening of the Ceatec 2004 exhibition here this week. The company also said it will sell Aquos-brand TVs with LCD panels in size of 50 inches and larger in 2005.
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com December 14, 2004, 10:45 AM PT. Samsung and Sony have entered into an extensive cross-licensing agreement that will help them fill gaps in their patent portfolios and potentially stem off lawsuits.
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Two of the world&#39;s consumer electronics giants, Samsung Electronics and Sony, have signed a cross-license agreement detailing mutual usage of patents across major product lines owned by the two companies.
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But LCDs, consumer electronics are tough
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 20--OSAKA -- Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it will release five high-end  models in its Aquos family of liquid crystal display televisions featuring  double-speed panels that display even fast-moving images smoothly and clearly.
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Japan's Sharp Corp. (6753.T)  said on Tuesday it will likely need to consider bringing  forward a capacity expansion plan for its latest liquid crystal  display (LCD) panel plant in Kameyama, western Japan.
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Seoul, December 14: South Korea&#39;s Samsung electronics and Sony of Japan on Tuesday singed an agreement to share patents for digital technologies in major products, Samsung said.
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Sharp and Toshiba plan to closely cooperate in the flat-panel TV business, buying screens and semiconductor chips from each other, they said Friday.Toshiba will turn to Sharp for the 32-inch and larger flat-panel displays used in its LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions while Sharp will procure from Toshiba the chips used in its TVs. The cooperation will begin during the year from April and will slowly build towards 2010 when two goals are expected to be reached: Sharp will supply Toshiba with 40 percent of its LCD modules and Toshiba will sell to Sharp 50 percent of the chips it needs.The deal provides both companies with a steadier supply of vital components for LCD TVs. The market for such televisions has grown from 161 million units in 2003 to an estimated 192 million this year and is expected to keep on rising on the back of strong demand and competition.Some of the display panels headed for Toshiba will come from a state-of-the-art &#165;380 billion (US$3.36 billion) LCD manufacturing plant Sharp is building in Osaka&#39;s Sakai City. Production is scheduled to begin in 2009. The plant will handle mother glass -- the large sheets on which several display panels are made -- of 2.85 meters by 3.05 meters. This size, dubbed 10th generation, is larger than that used by any other display manufacturer and will make the Sakai plant the world&#39;s most advanced LCD production center.The large glass sheets also bring a cost advantage for Sharp. The per-inch price of LCD panels drops with increases in the size of mother glass, so the panels are likely to be more competitive than those from rivals. That&#39;s especially important in the TV market, where strong competition has made price a key to success.Toshiba currently holds a stake in IPS Alpha Technology, an LCD manufacturing joint venture created with Panasonic and Hitachi. The IPS line uses an older 6th-generation technology and will need substantial investment if it is to remain competitive in the market.
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(InfoWorld) - First it was chips, now it's LCDs (liquid crystal displays). Authorities around the globe are investigating possible anticompetitive conduct in the LCD industry, according to activity at LG.Philips LCD Co.Â offices. On Friday, officials from the Korean Fair Trade Commission visited LG.Philips' offices in Seoul as part of an investigation into possible anticompetitive behavior, LG.Philips said on Monday. In addition, the Japanese Fair Trade Commission issued a notice to LG.Philips' offices in Tokyo. and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a subpoena to LG.Philips' offices in San Jose, California, the company said. The company said it would cooperate with the investigation. It was not immediately known Monday if other LCD companies had also been targeted. Authorities around the globe are already investigating other chip markets for possible anticompetitive behavior, including price fixing, and some companies have been fined. This was the first indication of an investigation into the LCD market. The DOJ recentlyÂ subpoenaed Advanced Micro DevicesÂ as part of an investigation into the graphics processor market. It has fined companies forÂ price-fixing in the DRAM market, and is also currently investigating similar issues in the SRAM (Static RAM) sector. LG.Philips, a joint venture of LG Electronics and Philips Electronics, is one of the largest makers of LCD screens. It competes with Samsung Electronics and Sony, among others.
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Sharp Corp., which helped propel the market for liquid-crystal display televisions, is no longer the world's leading maker of the flat-panel TVs, according to two market research companies.
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Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. plans to start shipping a new touchscreen liquid crystal display with scanner functions for mobile electronic devices this September, the company said Friday.