A federal jury found yesterday that Samsung willfully infringed two of Pioneer’s patents covering plasma televisions. As such, the Korean electronics giant will have to cough up (“cough up” is the technical term, mind you) some $59 million, payable to Pioneer.
As you might expect, Samsung plans to appeal the ruling forever and ever.
Sorta interesting: a Japanese corporation taking a Korean corporation to an American court for redress. We’re so globalized!
Samsung has no regard for IP. They will steal anything they can. We tried to do a JV with them and they used all the disclosed technologies in violation of our non-disclosure. We were stupid to trust them. Nice TV’s not nice people.