Sharp has infringed parts of two Samsung LCD patents, an ITC admi...
Sharp has infringed parts of two Samsung LCD patents, an ITC administrative law judge ruled in setting the stage for a Feb. 9 hearing. Judge Paul Luckern’s preliminary decision, still subject review by the six-member ITC, found that Sharp…
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violated four claims across two patents granted in 2004 and 2005, including one covering an LCD with a substrate, first electrode and first domain dividers. The display also had a “branch” that extends at an obtuse angle from the edge of the first electrode, the patent states. Luckern upheld a claim in a second patent covering a substrate with a field- generating electrode in the pixel region. Luckern found that Sharp didn’t infringe two other Samsung LCD patents. Samsung initially filed a complaint with the ITC on Dec. 21, 2007. The ITC launched a probe into its claims in January 2008. The ITC in October declined to review Luckern’s earlier finding that Samsung’s complaint met the “economic prong” of the “domestic industry requirement,” according to ITC documents. Samsung’s filing sought to bar the import of Sharp TVs that infringed its patents. Sharp sold 4.8 million LCD TVs outside Japan in the year ended in March 2008, with the U.S. accounting for about half of the international sales.