1d ago

Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech

www.sammobile.com

Samsung Display has scored an unprecedented victory against its rival BOE for stealing its OLED technology.

In 2023, it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Chinese firm BOE with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC).

Samsung recently won that lawsuit, and the commission's ruling is expected to effectively ban BOE's products from entering the USA.

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1d ago

Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech

www.sammobile.com /news/chinese-firm-boe-banned-usa-stealing-samsung-oled-tech/

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Who posts news from a corporate "news" site? Sammobile? Really? Fuck that and fuck Samsung too, with their mobster cartel practices.
Copyright and patent laws need to die.
If you're cheering for this, than you're a useful idiot who now has to pay higher prices for the same product.
- The whole idea of intellectual property is bonkers. Imagine charging people for hearing your voice, that's the logical conclusion of monetizing intellectual property.
  Capitalism needs to die.
Now BOE just needs to sell the technology to their completely independent wholly owned subsidiary, COE....
- They’ll manufacture and relabel the products like most big corps
  What’s that shell game where you guess where the ball is. Same same but with paper companies and a factory
This is really political. No american company was banned for losing a lawsuit related to patent violations. Normally companies just have to pay money for violations
- No, this is just a really stupid headline. The ITC is specifically a body that bars products found to be infringing from importation into the US market. It cannot allow award damages but the bar can be circumvent by a deal with the patent owner. This is literally the function of this particular body.
- It's not like China stealing tech wasn't their modus operandi for decades. This is just more of the same.
While this is I think a win for IP law, I think the entire IP system is long overdue for an overhaul.
- Get rid of the entire thing.
  If you can't protect your own ideas, you shouldn't have billions of dollars of taxpayer resources to protect them for you.
  All the resources wasted enforcing copyright and patent laws, which themselves exist solely to increase the price useful idiots have to pay, could be spent doing anything else that is actually beneficial for us.
  Anyone who honestly believes that necessary work wouldn't get done without copyright and patent laws is a moron going to bat for people richer than him. It's unfortunately the default state for most of us at this point.
  
  I spent 2 years perfecting this method, now I'm next to broke, how do I make use of my invention to make money if some rich mass manufacturing company can come and simply copy my design?

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