Legal Fight between Solas OLED and Samsung Electronics over Patent Infringement
OLED IP company Solas OLED recently announced that it has filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics. It is based in Ireland. The company filed this lawsuit in the courts of Germany.
However, Solas chooses not to disclose the exact patents that are involved in this lawsuit, but the company says, “Our patent portfolio covers all critical areas of OLED structures, display design and architecture, and driver circuitry, and that Samsung is using the company’s inventions in its own various devices without our prior permission, such as smartphones, watches, and tablets.”
Solas reported that some of its cases are already pending against Samsung before the International Trade Commission and also before the US District Court in Texas for a patent.
Solas is a leading licensor in the market of technology focused on the OLED market. Having a look from the smallest OLED watch to the largest OLED TV, Solas’ intellectual property is a fundamental element to the design, circuitry, and manufacturing of OLED displays. However, the company works in a way by licensing its portfolio of OLED patents to numerous leading manufacturers of smartphones, wearables, tablets, computers, and even TVs. Existing licensees of the company include major market leaders of the markets of OLED display, smartphone, computer, and digital camera.
It is a very interesting fact regarding the Solas that its worldwide portfolio of intellectual property not only encompasses innovation beginning in the early 1990s but also covers all critical areas of OLED structures, display design/architecture, and also driver circuitry. The patents are undoubtedly fundamental to every active-matrix electronics and are also universally required for the functioning of AMOLEDs, irrespective of specific organic material. Solas has successfully assembled its portfolio as one of the most comprehensive OLED portfolios in the world. Further, it not only provides new entrants to the OLED market the freedom to operate but also gives existing companies the ability to defend their market positions. However, it continues to seek, evaluate and acquire new patents in the OLED space.
Solas’ patents provide a very important worldwide coverage in all of the major markets of countries such as the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, and Singapore.
Solas always remain in the limelight of filing lawsuits against its patent infringement. It is a quality that every company must acquire to be active enough to protect its IP and inventions. Some old instances are also there where Solas OLED sued major companies over patent infringement. Solas prevailed in its patent infringement action in Germany against LG Display, LG Electronics, and Sony in the month of November of 2020 where the case got settled when LG Display later signed a license with Solar OLED. Solas also dropped two lawsuits that it filed in the courts of the US against Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. In the year 2020 also, Solas OLED has filed a lawsuit in the US against top companies for OLED stack patent infringements.
