元器件交易网讯 据外媒称，一家韩国法院判决三星赔付60亿韩元(约合550万美元)给R&D前负责人用于在TV业务中未支付的专利费，该首脑发明了超过20项关键技术。
Yonghap 报道称，仅仅能查阅到姓Cheong的该负责人，因为三星未能支付他在电视附属产品中拥有的未命名的科技专利费用而对三星进行了起诉。在1991年到1995年期间，姓Cheong的负责人带领R&D获得了10项国内专利和28项国际专利。
另外，除了与苹果在专利技术上搞的热火朝天，三星在TV业务上卷入了与国内竞争对手Ericsson的纷争。
三星宣称LG的工程师泄露了它的关键技术的细节，LG对此进行了针锋相对的反击。最新的进展显示在争论的焦点是三星提出对LG的7项专利宣告无效。(刘光明 译)
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Korean court orders Samsung to pay former R&D head $5.5m over unpaid patent bonuses
A Korean court has ordered Samsung to dole out 6 billion won (circa $5.5 million) in unpaid patent bonuses to the former head of research and development for its TV business, who developed more than 20 crucial technologies.
The Yonghap reports that the man, who is only being referred to by his surname — Cheong — filed a lawsuit against Samsung for failing to pay bonuses he was entitled to for developing the unnamed technologies for its television subsidiary. Cheong led R&D for the business between
1991 and 1995, during which time he was responsible for technology behind 10 local patents and 28 international patents.
The issue arose from the fact that Samsung applied for 17 US patents and 2 further patents in China after his departure, and he claims that he was never fully compensated for that. The ordered pay-out represents 10 percent of the revenues that his inventions brought the company — minus the $185,000 he already received – and a court statement said this is a fair level of compensation.
“After putting together Cheong’s leading role in inventing the patents, the size of Sams
ung Electronics and the profits due to Cheong’s patents, the inventor should receive 10 percent of the profits in compensation.”
Commenting on the verdict, a Samsung spokesperson told The Next Web:
It is Samsung’s view that the ruling underestimates the company’s contribution to the employee’s invention.
After reviewing the judgment, we will determine what necessary steps should be taken, including legal action.
As well as legal scraps with Apple — one of which resulted in a jury handing down a fine in excess of $1 billion — while LG this week filed a patent suit against Samsung, c
laiming two years of negotiations have failed to secure licensing agreements.
Samsung’s TV business itself is involved in a spat with domestic rival LG. Samsung claims that LG engineered leaks of details around some of its key patents and the duo have sued, and counter-sued, each other over the matter. The most recent development saw Samsung move to annul seven LG patents at the heart of the dispute.
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