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1. McKenna Can't Rep Apeldyn In Samsung LCD Suit: Judge

Friday, Mar 12, 2010

Dashing McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP’s bid for reconsideration, a federal judge has stuck to her guns in disqualifying the firm from representing Apeldyn Corp. in its infringement action against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., one of a McKenna litigator’s former clients.

2. LG Infringes 4 AU Optronics LCD Patents: Judge

Thursday, Feb 18, 2010

In a win for AU Optronics Corp., a federal judge has found that liquid crystal display industry rival LG Display Co. Ltd. has infringed four patents covering wide-ranging flat panel technology.

3. LG Settles TV Patent Spat With AtratechJapan

Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010

LG Electronics USA Inc. has settled a suit brought by AtratechJapan Corp. accusing a slew of flat-screen television makers of infringing a patent for television backlighting technology.

4. Motorola, AT&T Join LCD Screen Antitrust MDL

Monday, Feb 01, 2010

Motorola Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC have lashed out at Sharp Electronics Corp., Epson Electronics America Inc. and other manufacturers of thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels in multidistrict litigation alleging a massive price-fixing scheme in which the TFT-LCD manufacturers overcharged the plaintiffs for the LCD screens used in many popular cell phones.

5. Huge Antitrust Fines Reflect Regulators' Bold Stance

Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010

A look at the top 10 fines levied on each side of the Atlantic in the past year reveals the increasingly aggressive enforcement stance of regulators.

6. Tech, Energy Took Biggest Antitrust Hits Last Year

Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010

Technology, energy and telecommunications companies accounted for the biggest shares of antitrust settlements, fines and judgments paid in 2009, thanks to a handful of exceptionally large payments from Intel Corp., E.ON AG, GDF Suez, Telenor Group and others.

7. Chi Mei To Pay $220M After Copping To LCD Price-Fixing

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009

Taiwan-based Chi Mei Optoelectronics has pled guilty and agreed to pay $220 million in criminal fines for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of liquid crystal display panels.

8. Magistrate Nixes Anvik's Bid To Alter Discovery Rule

Thursday, Oct 22, 2009

A magistrate judge has declined to order electronics industry defendants in Anvik Corp.'s multibillion-dollar scanning technology patent cases — including Samsung Electronics and Sharp Corp. — to turn over global sales data on related products prior to the dates the privately held optical systems firm filed suit.

9. ATS Complaint Tossed In TFT-LCD Antitrust MDL

Thursday, Oct 08, 2009

A federal judge has thrown out ATS Claim LLC's complaint in the multidistrict litigation alleging antitrust violations in the flat-panel display industry while leaving room for ATS to amend the complaint and issue a new service notice to the U.S.-based defendants in the case.

10. McKenna Nixed As Apeldyn Atty In LCD Patent Spat

Thursday, Oct 01, 2009

A judge has granted Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s bid to disqualify McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP from representing Apeldyn Corp. in a patent suit it filed against Samsung and others over liquid crystal display technology since an attorney at the firm previously represented Samsung in other patent cases.

11. Samsung, Others Told To Produce Docs In LCD Suits

Thursday, Sep 17, 2009

A federal magistrate judge has ordered a number of overseas electronics firms, including Samsung Electronics and Sharp Corp., to hand over worldwide sales information on liquid crystal display panels in a group of multibillion-dollar patent infringement suits brought by privately held optical systems firm Anvik Corp.

12. Philips Settles With Atratech In LCD Patent Suit

Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009

Philips Electronics North America Corp. has become the first flat-screen television maker to reach a settlement with AtratechJapan Corp., a Japanese company that has accused several electronics giants of infringing its patent for TV backlighting technology.

13. AUO, LG Drop Patent From LCD War

Friday, Feb 27, 2009

A federal judge has signed off on a stipulation dropping one patent Taiwan-based AU Optronics Corp. had asserted against LG Display Co. Ltd. in a wide-ranging patent battle LG is waging against several electronics companies over a myriad of patents covering liquid crystal display technology.

14. McKenna Long Can't Represent Apeldyn: Samsung

Friday, Feb 27, 2009

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is seeking to disqualify McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP from representing Apeldyn Corp. in a patent suit it filed against Samsung and others over liquid crystal display technology, on the grounds that one of the lawyers on the case once represented Samsung.

15. Samsung, Sony, Sharp Face Patent Suit Over LCDs

Wednesday, Sep 10, 2008

Electronics makers including Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corp. and Sony Corp. are facing a patent infringement suit over technology used to improve image quality in liquid crystal display computer monitors and televisions.

16. Flat-Screen TV Giants Hit With Circuitry Patent Suit

Monday, Aug 04, 2008

A Japanese company is suing several electronics makers with major operations in the U.S. – including Samsung, Vizio, LG and Mitsubishi – claiming backlighting systems that enhance the picture on many popular flat-screen television models infringe a circuitry patent.

17. Hire Sheet: Law Firms Hired For Major IP Litigation

Thursday, Apr 24, 2008

WB Music Inc., ESPN Sports and AT&T Mobility LLC were just some of the companies that hired law firms to work on major IP litigation in recent weeks, according to our daily review of court dockets.

18. Chi Mei, LG Philips LCD Suit Moved To Delaware

Thursday, Apr 03, 2008

A federal judge in Texas agreed on Monday to transfer a case between Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. and LG Philips LDC Co. Ltd. over various patents regarding liquid crystal displays to Delaware, granting LG Philips' request.

19. Patent Tossed In French Atomic Agency's LCD Case

Wednesday, Nov 07, 2007

A federal judge has struck one of the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique's patents from a long-running case over liquid crystal displays after finding that the French atomic agency failed to meet a “best mode” requirement in its patent claims.

20. Court Grants Dismissal Of LCD Patent Dispute

Friday, Jul 06, 2007

A California court has granted a joint motion to dismiss Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Ltd.’s and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp.’s claims against each other in the patent dispute over liquid crystal display technology, weeks after the court issued a number of mixed rulings in the case.