On January 14, we noted that Samsung Display (pvt) filed a lawsuit against Japan’s JOLED (pvt) alleging that both JOLED and Taiwan based monitor producer ASUS (2557.TT) have been violating one of Samsung’s patents entitled “Thin Film Transistor Array Substrate and Organic Light Emitting Diode Display Including Same” in the display of the ASUS Proart PQ22UC OLED monitor, a $3,950 device whose 21.6” OLED display was produced by JOLED. We expect the lawsuit was not entirely to protect SDC’s IP rights, but also in response to JOLED’s suit (in the same court) alleging that Samsung had been selling products that violated four JOLED patents since 2014.
Such suits are usually a result of a breakdown in licensing negotiations, and after considerable time and expense, usually result in a licensing agreement, but this one seems to be taking on another level of enmity, as an affiliate of Samsung Display has just filed another suit against JOLED, alleging it has violated three SDC patents that reference display electronics that go back as far as 2004. While JOLED has a very broad IP portfolio that it intends to defend, SDC has vast legal resources and can likely find additional alleged IP violations against JOLED to exert more pressure on the company to lift its initial claims. In the interim, lawyer’s kids are going to expensive private schools…
Such suits are usually a result of a breakdown in licensing negotiations, and after considerable time and expense, usually result in a licensing agreement, but this one seems to be taking on another level of enmity, as an affiliate of Samsung Display has just filed another suit against JOLED, alleging it has violated three SDC patents that reference display electronics that go back as far as 2004. While JOLED has a very broad IP portfolio that it intends to defend, SDC has vast legal resources and can likely find additional alleged IP violations against JOLED to exert more pressure on the company to lift its initial claims. In the interim, lawyer’s kids are going to expensive private schools…
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