Hardly. LG are like Mitsubishi, you use their stuff all the time without ever knowing it it's pretty much omnipresent and used by many companies, even those that seem to be direct competitors.JDKJ said:
LG produce screen technology that everyone (well, barring Philips and Sony) puts in just about every monitor or TV you can buy. They are major players in the optical market as this case shows. They are HUGE in the white goods industry too, mostly washers driers and fridges. Not to mention industrial electronics. The phones and laptops are utter crap mind.
as an anecdote;
My LG washing machine is just about the best engineered such device I have ever seen. Opening it up when it broke (hard water area) was a surprise, most washing machines are running on pretty crappy mechanical technology. This was a doddle to repair thanks to some very elegantly designed components. I hope who ever designed that in-pipe magnet driven pump got a big fat cheque.
As to this story, Sony deserve it; they've been stamping their boots all over the industry like a spoilt brat for the past few years, seems to have been fashionable since the economy dried up a little as all the big players have been giving it a go. Putting in ridiculously broad patents and then trying to sue everyone is not good business and now they get to feel the cost of their actions.
Patents are meant to be a way to 'protect specific solutions to engineering problems' not 'idea protection'.
Hate to burst your bubble but apple started that one, instead of targeting the fortress of googles legal team they started sue all the smaller companies using android. Even before that they went for anyone small using any form of touch technolgy despite it being a lot older than the iphone so it's hardly surprising everyone is counter sueing themAurgelmir said:
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