What They Say
Solas OLED put out a release sayin g that it had won a patent dispute over OLEDs in Texas against Samsung (Displays and Electronics). It has cases pending against Samsung before the International Trade Commission and against Samsung Electronics GmbH in the Düsseldorf District Court in Germany.
The jury awarded damages of $62.74 million.
The company was scathing in its criticism of Samsung: Gerald Padian, co-founder and Director of Solas, commented
“For too long, the behemoth that is Samsung has played the game of double standards – taking and using the patented technologies of others without paying, while at the same time constructing the world’s largest patent portfolio behind which they hide their billions of dollars. Just like you cannot walk out of a Samsung store with a Galaxy phone without paying for it, Samsung cannot walk away with Solas’ property without paying for it. Thankfully, the Courts and juries are a great leveller. When we, the founders of Solas, had an operating company, we lived through the frustration and devastation of big companies stealing our inventions
What We Think
It wasn’t clear at the time of publishing if Samsung was appealing against this decision. In February, we reported that Solas had settled its dispute with LG (Solas OLED Settles Patent Disputes with LG Display Co). It won a case against LG and its customers in November. (Irish OLED Intellectual Property Company Solas OLED Prevails
One of the patents (7,446,338) was filed originally by Casio in 2005 and is related to transistor arrays. The second (9,256,311) was originally filed by Atmel Corp and relates to touch sensors on flexible substrates. (BR)
