http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/ Engadget Comments for ITC rules Samsung infringed on four Sharp patents, bans import of some LCDs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Nov 10th 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Nov 10th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Nov 10th 2009 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Nov 10th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Nov 10th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Nov 10th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Nov 10th 2009 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Nov 10th 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Now, Are they are going back to imitating illegally?...and not willing to pay for it?]]>Nov 10th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090324/167582/

Initially, Japanese firms were good at imitating. Then came a period when they started acquiring technologies from the west. In the last two decades or so they had some innovations to their credit.
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Intel screws everyone

What the heck is up with this industry???
Status quo I guess...]]>Nov 10th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/
Take Apple in this case, sure they took some of Nokia's patents and used them, chances are they might have not known that they were patented since it was their first time ever making a phone. Now after the device has proved itself on the market, Nokia wants a piece of that action. But it was an idea someone decided to implement into the phone that was already thought up by one of the other 6 billion people on earth.

Same thing with Samsung and Sharp, sure Sharp is "entitled" to the patent claims, but are they really? I mean some of these ideas I come up with are just thoughts in my head then a few months later there is a working product across the world in China or Japan of the same exact thing I had thought of.

I say abolish the current patent system, re-structure so that the idea owner has a year to do what he needs to do to get the idea out in the open, and after that if he hasn't succeded in his business then other companies can use that same idea to benefit the consumer. A person could come up with a great new display design and go to someone like Samsung and sell them the tech, Samsung has a year to market it and manufacture it before anyone else can use it, and then it's far game to all the reverse engineers.

But ideas aren't strictly isolated to one individual, we all have ideas that some how materialize if we take action or not. Anyways...]]>Nov 10th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/]]>Nov 11th 2009 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/itc-rules-samsung-infringed-on-four-sharp-patents-bans-import-o/Jun 14th 2010 4:06PM