Last November we noted that The District Court of Mannheim, Germany issued a ruling in favor of Solas (pvt), an Ireland based patent management company that specializes in OLED IP. The defendents in the case were LG Display, LG Electronics (066570.KS), and Sony (SNE), who, according to the decision, infringed on a Solas patent for control circuitry that is used in certain LG and Sony TVs. The court ordered the defendants to ‘cease and desist’ from marketing the infringing products in Germany, recall all infringing products from commercial customers, and must provide Solas with a detailed accounting of infringing product sales going back to 2009. The court defended Solas’s position as a non-active manufacturer, usually a point of contention in such suits, citing that Solas ‘indirectly financially supports” the research at the University of Stuttgart, for whom they manage the IP in question, but as a relatively lower court ruling, LG and Sony have the right to appeal the decision, which they have stated would be done immediately.
Yesterday the US International Trade Commission opened a ‘337’ investigation based on a complaint by Solas, made on December 28,2020 that alleges IP violations for certain OLED display devices and components. The respondents in the investigation are Samsung Electronics, Samsung Display, and BOE (200725.CH). The IP noted in the investigation is for TFT backplane technology that was filed by Casio (6952.JP) in 2005 and 2006, which Solas either owns or is acting as representative. While no action against the parties mentioned takes place for more than 100 days from the date of the filing, this investigation joins the myriad of other claims in various global courts made by Solas, a well-known patent troll with a focus on consumer electronics.
Yesterday the US International Trade Commission opened a ‘337’ investigation based on a complaint by Solas, made on December 28,2020 that alleges IP violations for certain OLED display devices and components. The respondents in the investigation are Samsung Electronics, Samsung Display, and BOE (200725.CH). The IP noted in the investigation is for TFT backplane technology that was filed by Casio (6952.JP) in 2005 and 2006, which Solas either owns or is acting as representative. While no action against the parties mentioned takes place for more than 100 days from the date of the filing, this investigation joins the myriad of other claims in various global courts made by Solas, a well-known patent troll with a focus on consumer electronics.
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