http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=47981
 
JOLED, an OLED manufacturer in Japan, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, Samsung Display, and Samsung Electronics' U.S. subsidiary with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on June 22, the company announced in its website. A company jointly set up by Sony, Panasonic and other Japanese companies, JOLED also filed a similar complaint against Samsung Electronics Co. and its German subsidiary with the District Court of Mannheim in Germany.
 
JOLED claims that Samsung Electronics and others used its OLED panel technology without permission for Galaxy smartphones sold in the United States. Industry sources believe that the patent was related to OLED material technology. JOLED holds about 4,000 patents related to organic matters.
On June 19, JOLED announced mass production of OLED panels for TVs, declaring war against LG Display, which has strengths in large OLED panels. JOLED had technologies related to OLEDs but lacked the funds needed to develop large OLEDs. It received investments worth 20 billion yen from CSOT, a Chinese display company. Chinese and Japanese display manufacturers are stepping up efforts to catch up with Korean companies in OLED technologies through the joint development of large OLEDs.
 
I'm sure some type of legal settlement will probably occur. 

ty_ger07
I wonder why they waited so long to file. I guess that it is more about getting more settlement money and less about trying to stop competition.

Patent trolling, invented here, has apparently taken over the world.

OLED has been commercially available for 15+ years. There should absolutely be a time limit to enforce a patent or lose it. That’s assuming their patents are actually valid and not some vaguely worded “oled-ish” type of display.

The “we were broke” argument doesn’t cut it. If they had enough money to file - presumably with lawyers - they had the money to enforce.

Throw it (lawsuit) out.

MasterMiner

ty_ger07
I wonder why they waited so long to file. I guess that it is more about getting more settlement money and less about trying to stop competition.

Patent trolling, invented here, has apparently taken over the world.

OLED has been commercially available for 15+ years. There should absolutely be a time limit to enforce a patent or lose it. That’s assuming their patents are actually valid and not some vaguely worded “oled-ish” type of display.

The “we were broke” argument doesn’t cut it. If they had enough money to file - presumably with lawyers - they had the money to enforce.

Throw it (lawsuit) out.

Well, if JOLED has 4000 OLED based patents they have a right to defend those patents. 

The lawsuit is targeted at OLED smartphone screens. 

Brad_Hawthorne
..... A side effect of that is US Copyright is also through the same government entity. Ever hear of that Netflix new series called Space Force? Well, Netflix filed a Copyright for "Space Force" and are legally trolling the US Government for name use rights. Isn't first to file rights wonderfully bad? You might be first to use, but first to file gets the rights. 

I have not heard of that one... and people wonder why China’s winning (I know, I sound like a broken record) but seriously.... You’re exactly right and this is why a big chunk of the world doesn’t take our claims of “ip” seriously.