Chinese firm BOE could be banned from the USA for close to 15 years for stealing Samsung Display's OLED technology.

Samsung Display has scored an unprecedented victory against its rival BOE for stealing its OLED technology.

In 2023, it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Chinese firm BOE with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC).

Samsung recently won that lawsuit, and the commission’s ruling is expected to effectively ban BOE’s products from entering the USA.

  • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 month ago

    This is really political. No american company was banned for losing a lawsuit related to patent violations. Normally companies just have to pay money for violations

    • FatCrab@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      No, this is just a really stupid headline. The ITC is specifically a body that bars products found to be infringing from importation into the US market. It cannot allow award damages but the bar can be circumvent by a deal with the patent owner. This is literally the function of this particular body.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    1 month ago

    China’s complete disregard for payments is bad…

    But so is the American patent system, due to lobbyist from giant corporations like Disney essentially writing our patent laws.

    The best answer is shorter term patents, it’s not only a choice between the two existing systems.

    • keimevo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      Not that I don’t agree with your sentiment, but patents (technical methods to build machines, do stuff, etc.) are different from copyright (stories, characters, etc… the one Disney has exploited for decades).

  • Berserker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    1 month ago

    Who posts news from a corporate “news” site? Sammobile? Really? Fuck that and fuck Samsung too, with their mobster cartel practices.

  • supamanc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    Now BOE just needs to sell the technology to their completely independent wholly owned subsidiary, COE…

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      They’ll manufacture and relabel the products like most big corps

      What’s that shell game where you guess where the ball is. Same same but with paper companies and a factory

  • icelimit@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    1 month ago

    While this is I think a win for IP law, I think the entire IP system is long overdue for an overhaul.