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Chalk up another huge win for Samsung in its long-running patent dispute with Sharp: the US International Trade Commission has just issued a ruling banning importation of Sharp LCD panels that infringe one of Samsung"s viewing-angle patents. As you might imagine, the ban covers a wide swath of Sharp"s consumer products, including the Aquos TV line, but it"s not clear on how it"ll affect other companies that use Sharp panels -- this ruling could potentially have a huge impact on the entire tech market. On the other hand, we"d bet that Sharp"s lawyers are furiously putting together a request to have the ban delayed while an appeal is sorted out, so this is far from over -- in fact, we"d say the real fireworks are just beginning.

According to Bloomberg, which obtained court papers filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, Sharp and Samsung paid $105 million and $82.7 million, respectively, for their alleged involvement in driving up prices for LCDs sold between 1999 and 2006. Chimei Innolux paid $78 million as part of the class action lawsuit"s settlement.

"They colluded on minimum prices of panels, pricing policies on each product type, timing of price increases, and a ban on cash rebates," the country"s Fair Trade Commission said at the time. "They were aware that such action was illegal, and kept their gatherings and information secret."

The alleged price fixing impacted several markets and a host of companies, including Dell, Motorola, and Apple. In 2009, AT&T and Nokia sued Samsung, LG Display, and other panel makers, alleging that the companies artificially inflated prices on LCD panels. Dell followed with a lawsuit of its own last year, taking aim at Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, and others, accusing the firms of collusion on LCD panel pricing.

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Aug 24 (Reuters) - U.S. tech giant Hewlett-Packard Co has filed a case against AU Optronics , saying the Taiwanese company conspired to fix the prices of thin film liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, court documents showed.

The complaint, which sought damages from AU Optronics, was filed under seal to protect HP’s confidential information about the company’s process for procuring LCD panels, according to a court filing made by Jun Kim, HP’s general manager for the Displays Business Unit.

The case is Hewlett-Packard vs AU Optronics Corp, Case No. 3:11-cv-04116-SI, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. (Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Vinu Pilakkott)

Seoul"s antitrust agency said on Sunday it had fined 10 of the world"s leading flat panel makers in South Korea and Taiwan a total of 194 billion won ($175 million) for price fixing.

Firms including Samsung Electronics and LG Display in South Korea and AU Optronics and Chimei Innolux from Taiwan colluded from 2001 to 2006 to control prices of panels for computers and televisions, the Fair Trade Commission said.

"They colluded on minimum prices of panels, pricing policies on each product type, timing of price increases and a ban on cash rebates," the FTC said in a statement.

The firms have a combined 80 percent share in the global liquid crystal display (LCD) market, the FTC said, adding the cartel hurt consumers by increasing prices of computers, laptops and televisions.

The fines by the FTC -- the largest it has ever imposed for a case of international price fixing -- came three years after several major Asian LCD makers, including LG, were fined after a similar US probe.

In December, the European Commission also fined six Asian makers of LCD screens a total of 649 million euros ($860 million at the time) for operating for almost five years as a cartel.

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce recently issued the latest Unverified List (UVL) which includes ChuZhou HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., according to TrendForce’s investigations. The announcement states that if U.S. suppliers wish to ship products to companies on the UVL, they can still submit documentation to obtain a shipping license. According to TrendForce’s understanding, the primary reason ChuZhou HKC is included on the UVL is that it plans to import panel-related analytical instruments from the United States in the near future, and actions taken by BIS are not indicative of the Chinese panel industry as a whole. Currently, ChuZhou HKC is in the process submitting proposals and negotiating with its U.S. material suppliers, thus TrendForce’s assessment is that there is no impact on the supply and shipment of ChuZhou HKC products for the time being.

It should be noted that according to TrendForce statistics, HKC’s Chuzhou plant will account for only 3.8% of global LCD panel capacity in 2022, which is a fairly insignificant share. However, this plant accounts for 30% of HKC"s own capacity, thereby playing a pivotal role in company production. The Chuzhou factory primarily produces TV panels and monitor panels, among which TV panels account for nearly 80% of the factory"s production. If the current ban cannot be resolved smoothly, it will impact shipments of HKC TV panels.

In addition, the glass substrates used in HKC’s Chuzhou factory are sourced from multiple glass substrate suppliers, with approximately 40% coming from Corning, a U.S. supplier. Since Corning localized it production according to the location of panel makers, it is not expected to be limited by the restrictions on the export of U.S. production to China enumerated on the UVL, but detailed regulations are still awaiting clarification. At present, the supply of materials has not been affected, HKC’s Chuzhou plant maintains normal operation, and its clients have yet to move panel procurement away from the Chuzhou production line.

Samsung Electronics Co, the world’s largest maker of liquid-crystal display televisions, should be banned from selling certain LCD TVs and computer monitors in the US after losing a patent case filed by Sharp Corp, a US trade agency said.

WASINGTON: Samsung Electronics Co, the world���s largest maker of liquid-crystal display televisions, should be banned from selling certain LCD TVs and computer monitors in the US after losing a patent case filed by Sharp Corp, a US trade agency said.

Yesterday���s decision from the US International Trade Commission in Washington now heads to President Barack Obama, who can overturn the ban if he finds it���s contrary to the public interest. Samsung also asked an appeals court that specializes in patent law to put the ban on hold while a challenge to the underlying patent case is pending.

Samsung, which can sell LCD-TVs that don���t use Sharp inventions, said the ITC ruling doesn���t have any impact on its business because it���s already using technology that bypasses the Japanese company���s patents, according to spokesman James Chung.

���There will be no problems for Samsung with products that have workaround technology,��� said Park Young, an analyst at Woori Investment & Securities Co in Seoul. The possibility of an actual ban may be low because it would be counter to the public interest for US consumers, according to Park.

US LCD-TV shipments by all companies are expected to rise 7.3 percent to 8 million units in the fourth quarter, according to market research firm ISuppli Corp. of El Segundo, California. Samsung had 19.9 percent of the US market in the second quarter, the most recent period for which figures are available, ISuppli said. Vizio Inc had 20.5 percent to maintain its top spot and Sharp was seventh with 5 percent, according to the researcher.

The order prevents Samsung from selling any LCD TVs or monitors that have inventions covered by four patents owned by Osaka, Japan-based Sharp. The patents are for a way to control the alignment of the liquid crystals to improve brightness and response speed; an LCD with a wider viewing angle; and two inventions related to techniques to reduce flickering in the display.

The commission previously upheld an ITC judge���s finding that Samsung infringed the Sharp patents. The commission said yesterday that the public-interest factors ���do not preclude issuance��� of an order banning imports or sales of imported products.

���We believe that ITC���s ruling has made it clear that ITC has consistently supported Sharp���s claim that LCD products of Samsung are violating Sharp���s patents,��� said Christopher Loncto, a spokesman for Sharp.

���We are fully committed to honor our responsibilities to our business partners and are taking appropriate action to meet the market demand for Samsung LCD panels and products without any interruption,��� she said by telephone today.

The ITC also has issued exclusion orders on TVs made by both Vizio and Sharp. Sharp is not allowed to import Sharp LCD televisions, including ones sold under the Aquos name, that infringe a Samsung patent for an LCD with a wider viewing angle.

Vizio, based in Irvine, California, is under investigation by the ITC as to whether it is violating an order that precludes it from importing LCD-TVs that infringe a patent owned by Japan���s Funai Electric Co. for a method that lets digital TV receivers identify programs, broadcast channels and program descriptions to viewers. Vizio contends it has worked around the Funai patent.

Samsung Display will stop producing LCD panels by the end of the year. The display maker currently runs two LCD production lines in South Korea and two in China, according to Reuters. Samsung tells The Verge that the decision will accelerate the company’s move towards quantum dot displays, while ZDNetreports that its future quantum dot TVs will use OLED rather than LCD panels.

The decision comes as LCD panel prices are said to be falling worldwide. Last year, Nikkei reported that Chinese competitors are ramping up production of LCD screens, even as demand for TVs weakens globally. Samsung Display isn’t the only manufacturer to have closed down LCD production lines. LG Display announced it would be ending LCD production in South Korea by the end of the 2020 as well.

Last October Samsung Display announced a five-year 13.1 trillion won (around $10.7 billion) investment in quantum dot technology for its upcoming TVs, as it shifts production away from LCDs. However, Samsung’s existing quantum dot or QLED TVs still use LCD panels behind their quantum dot layer. Samsung is also working on developing self-emissive quantum-dot diodes, which would remove the need for a separate layer.

Samsung’s investment in OLED TVs has also been reported by The Elec. The company is no stranger to OLED technology for handhelds, but it exited the large OLED panel market half a decade ago, allowing rival LG Display to dominate ever since.

Although Samsung Display says that it will be able to continue supplying its existing LCD orders through the end of the year, there are questions about what Samsung Electronics, the largest TV manufacturer in the world, will use in its LCD TVs going forward. Samsung told The Vergethat it does not expect the shutdown to affect its LCD-based QLED TV lineup. So for the near-term, nothing changes.

One alternative is that Samsung buys its LCD panels from suppliers like TCL-owned CSOT and AUO, which already supply panels for Samsung TVs. Last year The Elec reported that Samsung could close all its South Korean LCD production lines, and make up the difference with panels bought from Chinese manufacturers like CSOT, which Samsung Display has invested in.

By Baek Byung-yeulSamsung Display plans to extend production of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels until 2022, due to increasing panel prices and demand, the display-making arm of Samsung Electronics said Friday.The display maker said its CEO, Choi Joo-sun, recently told employees in an email that it is reviewing whether to keep producing LCD panels until the end of next year.The CEO"s email came at a time when LCD panel prices have continued to rise, due to surging demand for IT devices and TV sets since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by a supply shortage of core components for TVs. Market tracker Witsview said that the average LCD panel price in the first half of May rose to its highest level since June 2015.A company official said that the CEO sent the e-mail on May 25 and confirmed that the display maker is considering extending the production of LCD panels. "We are considering continuing LCD production until next year, while taking into account the factors that affect the best interests of the company and market conditions," the official said.As Chinese rivals flood the market with cheaper LCD panels, Samsung Display announced it will exit the saturated market in 2020 to transform its production line to quantum dot light-emitting display (LED) panels, which are considered to be the next-generation in technology for displays.However, at the end of last year, Samsung Display changed its strategy and decided to continue LCD production. Industry officials said the company decided to continue producing LCD panels after a request from Samsung Electronics, which wanted to secure a stable supply of LCDs and manufacture LCD-oriented TVs with affordable price tags.LG Display is also slowing down its plan to phase out the conventional LCD business, due to the increasing panel price. Jung Won-seok, an analyst at Hi Investment & Securities, said the price of LCD TV panels rose 13 percent in the first quarter of this year from the previous three-month period, and projected the price to rise about 15 percent more in the second quarter.

LCD panel maker Innolux Corp (群創) yesterday announced that net profit last quarter reached the highest in 15 quarters and that the strong momentum should carry into this quarter, sparking a sequential increase of 15 percent in the price of TV and laptop panels.

The Miaoli-based company said that global demand for panels this quarter continues to outpace supply — as the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a massive use of contactless technology and displays for Internet-connected electronics — which would support a continuing upward trend in panel prices this quarter, Innolux said in a statement.

People visit Innolux Corp’s booth at the Opto Taiwan trade show at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center’s Hall 1 on Oct. 20 last year. The LCD panel maker yesterday announced that net profit last quarter reached the highest in 15 quarters and that the strong momentum should carry into this quarter, sparking a sequential increase of 15 percent in the price of TV and laptop panels.

Shipments of TV and PC panels this quarter are expected to remain flat from last quarter, due to the limited availability of key components, from display driver ICs to glass substrates, Innolux said.

This quarter, shipments of smaller display panels, those used in handsets, are to decline by a low single-digit percentage from last quarter, the company said.

Average sales prices for TV and PC panels last quarter soared 48.56 percent year-on-year to US$413 per square meter, up from US$278 per square meter in the same period last year, representing a quarterly increase of 14 percent from US$362 per square meter.

Innolux is in the process of spinning off its automotive display panel manufacturing arm, CarUX Technology Inc (群豐駿), after it suspended a plan last year due to a slump in global vehicle sales.