Sony, Samsung bolster alliance, agree to share 24,000 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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Seoul (dpa) - South Korean electronics giant Samsung said Monday it plans to invest 25 trillion won (24 billion dollars) in the production of semiconductors over the next six years.
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Korea-based Samsung is preparing to develop mobile devices that use Philips (NYSE: PHG) NFC chips, as the two electronics giants join forces to push a nascent touch-based wireless technology called "near field communication" (NFC).
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp. on Tuesday signed a cross-licensing agreement, allowing mutual sharing of a number of patents across major product lines held by both companies.
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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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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.  Ltd.  and Sweden's Ericsson  on Monday  signed a mobile telecommunication cross license deal and agreed  to drop ongoing patent suits between the two companies.
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TOKYO -- Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that they have signed a licensing agreement, but the deal won&#39;t cover the Asian electronic companies&#39; key technologies.
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Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Toshiba are forming a joint venture to manufacture the PS3's Cell processor and other high-end chips.
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Samsung Group aims to achieve cumulative sales of 200 trillion won in its semiconductor business by investing an additional 25 trillion won from 2005 to 2010.
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LONDON, December 6  - The South Korean memory chipmaker, Samsung Electronics Company (SSUN.FSE), said today that it intends to invest approximately 25 trillion won ($24 billion; Â£12.36 billion) in building new chip production lines in
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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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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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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to invest 25 trillion won (US$24 billion) in building new semiconductor production lines by 2010, the company said Monday.
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Microsoft Corp.  and South  Korea&#39;s LG Electronics (066570.KS) said on Thursday they agreed  a patent cross-licensing deal, sending LG shares to their  highest in more than a year.
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Samsung Electronics, the worldâs second largest chipmaker, said on Monday it would invest Won25,000bn ($24bn) in new chip production lines by 2010 to generate accumulative sales of Won200,000bn.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world&#39;s largest maker of memory chips, said on Monday it would invest $24 billion in its semiconductor business by 2010.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft inked another cross-licensing patent agreement Wednesday, this time with South Korea's LG Electronics, covering the company's Linux-based embedded devices. As part of the deal, LG, one of the world's largest electronics companies, can use undefined "patented Microsoft technology" in its products, including Linux-based devices. The agreement also covers intellectual property contained in other hardware and software products, such as game consoles. LG is a manufacturer of CDMA, GSM, and 3G handsets; IP phones; plasma TVs; optical storage products; PDAs; notebook computers; DVD players; and home theater systems, among other electronic products. As in similar deals with Xandros (announced earlier this week), Novell, Samsung and Fuji Xerox, Microsoft did not detail just what patents LG was licensing, and LG did not say if its Linux-based devices violated any Microsoft patents. As part of the deal, Microsoft will have access to LG patents that cover computer architecture utilized in game consoles and other products and will license other LG patents that are owned by system integrator MicroConnect Group, which is based in Manchester, England. "This agreement is focused only on exchange of patent rights," said David Kaefer, general manager of IP licensing at Microsoft. "The open-source elements of the deal do utilize a covenant model similar to the Xandros and Novell deals, but this deal is most similar to recent agreements with Samsung and Fuji Xerox." Those deals were signed this year in April and March, respectively. Both covered general access to intellectual property contained in patent portfolios and included protection for customers using Linux-based software. In terms of the "customer covenant" clause in those deals, Kaefer said, "The covenants are structured very similarly." Microsoft and LG did not release financial terms of the deal but said in a press release that Microsoft would make a "net balancing" payment to LG and MicroConnect for patents related to operating systems and computer systems. Microsoft made a similar "net balancing" payment as part of its deal with Novell that, according to that contract, reflected "the larger applicable volume of Microsoft's product shipments" versus that of Novell's products. In addition, LG will be making ongoing payments to Microsoft to cover Microsoft patents as they relate to Linux-based embedded devices that LG produces. LG Enterprises comprises four business units -- Mobile Communications, Digital Appliance, Digital Display, and Digital Media. The company produced $48.5 billion in global sales in 2006. The company is a member of the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, which also includes Sony, Panasonic, Motorola, and others. None of those companies have cross-licensing deals with Microsoft. A search on the LG Web site turned up only one reference to Linux, which was the 2005 release of a set-top box sold under the DirecTV brand name that included "a general-purpose Linux-operating-system." In 2001, LG produced a Linux -based wireless webpad for home users that included Internet support and a built-in multimedia player. LG also is a partner of Microsoft in that it licenses Windows CE for use in its IP phones and produces Windows-based notebook computers. The deal with LG comes after Microsoft said last month it would seek royalties for patents that it says are being infringed upon by open-source technologies like Linux. The company, however, said it would prefer to sign patent and cross-licensing deals with open-source distributors rather than seek payments via litigation. The open-source community, specifically the Free Software Foundation, reacted by tweaking the final draft release of the GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0, which was released May 31, to prohibit such patent deals. The GPLv3 is expected to be officially published on June 29. Open source advocates contend that Microsoft is doing no more than bullying the Linux community with the threat of patent violations because it has not divulged what patents are infringed upon by Linux and other open-source software. Microsoft reiterated this week at its annual TechEd conference that its position is to protect intellectual property rights. "The approach that Microsoft is taking is to work with industry partners to ensure that when customers want to use open-source software, they can do so with the knowledge and security that the software brings with it all the licensing rights that are required," Bob Muglia, senior vice president for server and tools at Microsoft, said during his keynote address Monday. In a press release announcing the partnership, LG and MicroConnect executives struck the same tone. "We believe in the importance of respecting the [intellectual property] rights of others and that patent collaboration and protection is a best business practice the whole industry should be engaged in," said Jeong Hwan Lee, executive vice president of the Intellectual Property Center at LG. Alan Loudermilk, founding partner of MicroConnect, said, "MicroConnect is pleased to be able to make a contribution to the strengthened [intellectual property] relationship between LGE and Microsoft."