Samsung wins patents case against Matsushita
A US federal court has ruled that Samsung Electronics and Matsushita Electric Industrial did not infringe on each other’s memory chip patents, Samsung said on Monday.
By Agencies |
SEOUL: A US federal court has ruled that Samsung Electronics and Matsushita Electric Industrial did not infringe on each other’s memory chip patents, Samsung said on Monday.
The ruling by the court on Friday was related to one of a series of patent disputes between the two firms as they compete in the market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, used in personal computers, as well as flat panels.
In the lawsuit filed in May ’02, Matsushita sought $300m in damages from Samsung, accusing the South Korean company of infringing on three DRAM technology patents. “The New Jersey federal court in the US ruled that both Samsung and Matsushita had not infringed on each other’s patents,” Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip maker, told the Korea Exchange in a filing on Monday.
But Matsushita rejected the ruling. “Samsung violated Matsushita’s chip patents, and this ruling is unacceptable,” said a spokesman from Matsushita, the world’s largest consumer electronics maker. “We are studying necessary measures to overturn this verdict, including a possible appeal.”
In January, Japan-based Matsushita sued Samsung in relation to memory chip patents in a US court in Texas, after Samsung filed a similar lawsuit, also in Texas, last September. Both companies have also been sparring as makers of flat panel displays, used for TVs and computer monitors.
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In December, Samsung SDI, the world’s top plasma display panel maker and an affiliate of Samsung Electronics, filed suit against Matsushita Electric in a US federal court in Los Angeles, claiming the Japanese firm violated nine patents relating to plasma display panels.Download
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