In the United States and the PDP patent dispute Samsung initiative

According to foreign reports, the South Korean company Samsung SDI currently in the United States to the local court submitted a petition. In the complaint of South Korea's Samsung Corp asked the court to support its Japanese rival Matsushita ElectronICs Corporation flat on the market in the United States to display technology patent dispute in view at the same time, asking the court to declare "Panasonic Corp enjoy patent protection for the technology".

South Korea's Samsung Corp and Panasonic Corp in the plasma display technology patent dispute for a long time. In early 2004, Matsushita electronic claim that the industry, Samsung Electronics in the plasma display technology of patent infringement of Panasonic Corp, the two initially tried to resolve the dispute through negotiations, but by the end of 2005, the two companies eventually because of large differences in the process of negotiation and negotiation that temporarily stranded.

In this context, the Samsung Corp chose to change from passive to active, first submitted a petition to a local court, the court announced the Panasonic Corp in the plasma technology on enjoy patent belongs to invalid patent.

Samsung Corp claims in the description of the petition, Panasonic Corp in the plasma technology is the so-called patent is invalid. Once the request is supported by the court, which means that Samsung Corp can be exempted from paying royalties to Panasonic Corp huge royalties.

Samsung Corp said, at present in the southeastern city of Ulsa established industrial base covers an area of 99000 square meters of the fourth generation PDP production line, the estimated annual production of 42 inch PDP display 3 million sets of equipment, new production base, the Samsung PDP display equipment in annual production capacity increased to 7 million 320 thousand sets.

In January of this year, the Japanese Matsushita ElectronICs Corporation said it invested $1 billion 600 million in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture and Toray Industrial Company jointly built the fourth generation PDP production line.