Sharp hits Samsung with another LCD patent suit

Apparently, slapping your rival with one lawsuit per year just isn't enough for Sharp, who is tossing yet another case Samsung's way over -- surprise, surprise -- LCD patent infringement. This complaint, which was filed in the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea, claims that Samsung has infringed on three patents relating to brightness, response times and viewing angles of LCD panels. As expected, Samsung spokesman James Chung noted that the firm would be "responding actively to the lawsuit," and Sharp is asking the court to "award it compensatory damages and prohibit the production and sale in South Korea of the products concerned." C'mon guys, can't we just all get along?

[Via EETimes]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 13th 2007 4:36PM]

well, I guess since sharp can't seem to make money in the market place, why not try to make it in the courts?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 13th 2007 6:55PM]

True man, Sharp displays are nice, but they are definitely losing bigtime against Pioneer, Samsung, Sony and Panasonic.

[JDM Posted Dec 13th 2007 6:56PM]

"C'mon guys, can't we just all get along?"

Who cares about that crap? Developing improvements to display technologies is expensive, and if Samsung did rip Sharp, then why should they get away with it for free?