Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have entered into a cross-licensing agreement to share their respective patents related to semiconductor. Yonhap News says the agreement is a result of a negotiation that took three years where Samsung holds 102,995 semiconductor patents while SK hynix has 21,422 patents to its name. Although the duration, payment or royalty […]
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Origami Laser Printer Concept aims to make printers 100% recyclable
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) today announced the winners of the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2013 and in addition to existing Samsung products, the Korean company won awards for its innovative design concepts. The image you’re looking above is of Origami Mono Laser Printer that won the IDEA gold award for its […]
Samsung may exit LED Joint Venture with Sumitomo
Samsung might dissolve its joint venture with Japan-based Sumitomo Chemicals. Both companies entered [PDF link] into an equal partnership in 2011 to setup the Samsung Sumitomo LED Materials (SSLM) venture in Korea where they worked to manufacture and market sapphire substrates for LEDs. Samsung hasn’t officially confirmed the move but an unnamed executive claims “they’ve […]
Samsung looking to settle antitrust case in EU, says Reuters
Samsung is in talks to settle the antitrust case that was put forth by the EU Commission in January last year. This piece of information comes from Reuters who cites one of their sources claiming the electronics giant has been in talks with the regulator “for several months”. However, the source also points out that […]
Japanese court upholds decision in favour of Samsung
In August last year, the Tokyo District Court ruled Samsung didn’t infringe Apple’s content synchronization patent and today the Intellectual Property High Court in Tokyo upheld the previous decision in favour of Samsung. The court threw Apple’s appeal saying Samsung didn’t infringe the patent that dealt with “synchronizing music and video data on its Galaxy […]