China Court Orders Samsung Units To Pay $11.6 Million To Huawei Over Patent Case (reuters.com) 42
A Chinese court has ordered Samsung Electronics's mainland subsidiaries to pay 80 million yuan ($11.60 million) to Huawei Technologies for patent infringement, the China firm's first victory against Samsung on its legal challenges over intellectual property. From a report: Three units of Samsung have been ordered by the Quanzhou Intermediary Court to pay the sum for infringing a patent held by Huawei Device Co Limited, the handset unit of Huawei, the Quanzhou Evening News, a government-run newspaper, said on its website on Thursday. The verdict is the first on several lawsuits of Huawei against the South Korean technology giant. Huawei filed lawsuits against Samsung in May in courts in China and the United States -- the first by it against Samsung -- claiming infringements of smartphone patents. Samsung subsequently countersued Huawei in China for IP infringement.
Lol China (Score:2, Insightful)
Have you ever been to China? Everything there is a ripoff of western brands. And copyright infringement is everywhere, and practically encouraged by the government, to give Chinese brands an advantage of superior western ones. And of course many western brands, like google and facebook, are blocked outright, the only reason stuff like baidu even had a chance.
So, lol China. What a fucking joke.
Sincerely,
An angry hong konger
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I've been to Hong Kong, full of pirate goods there as well. And I told you the same applied to the USA. The USA had stolen/copied much of its textile tech from the UK. Before that the West had stolen silk making tech from China. This is a guilt that every country has committed. After they developed, they then become patent trolls. I guess people in KH are too naive to know what "patent trolls" are.
I dealt with a Hong Kong company which makes a women underware brand (Meizi); they make good products and sell
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Have you ever been to China?
I have - probably around 30 times over the last 20 years. Have you?
Everything there is a ripoff of western brands. And copyright infringement is everywhere, and practically encouraged by the government, to give Chinese brands an advantage of superior western ones. And of course many western brands, like google and facebook, are blocked outright, the only reason stuff like baidu even had a chance.
That's not what I have seen in my many visits. Sure, you can find fake goods in the markets, just like you can in similar markets in Europe and I wouldn't be surprised if they can be found in the US. Or Hong Kong, since you claim to be from Hong Kong. It is true that when I came there in the beginning, there weren't many Western style luxury goods, but I don't think it is true that things were of poor quality; they were just different - poss
Infringing what? (Score:1)
The article does not say, no details, no other links, not much to discuss without that and I don't feel like googling, that's your job article submitter and you FAILED.
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I'm skeptical of the idea that Samsung would have any interest in infringing on their 4G patents, and find the OS and UI claims
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It's not necessarily true that their patent suit is the same in the US and in China, but check out their filing in the US.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/313702463/Huawei-v-Samsung
That sounds like a real bargain! (Score:2)
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$11M sounds like small change for a patent infringement case.
That's chinese code word for bribe.
Taiwan #1 China #4
That's a bit rich (Score:2, Interesting)
11M is piss in the ocean, barely a rounding error in business operations.
What they want is propaganda, a story of so-called "Chinese innovation" taking down the evil THAAD-supporting, filthy constitutional republic next door. A story of Justice with Chinese Characters being done. A story of how the China Dream is Great Again under Dear Leader Uncle Xi.
And if you think a Chinese patent is worth the same as an American one, I have a bridge in Kambash, Ordos, Inner Mongolia to sell.
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TOP FUCKING KECK! (Score:3, Funny)
China court enforces patent law!
Return on investment (Score:2)
Read between the lines, folks.
Oh? (Score:4, Interesting)
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Imitator? That's putting it lightly. I work in the telecom industry. There was a time when Huawei boards could run Nortel firmware.
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I've also heard of Huawei switches which basically an IOS clone.
A lot of early tech companies started out as "imitators" before they got to the point of producing their own products. I've been seen a number of things from Huawei which appear to be of their own design and quite decent quality (like some of their smartwatches).
Serious question (Score:1)
Re: Serious question (Score:2)
Nortel IP thiefs (Score:2, Informative)
The entire creation of HUAWEI as a company was done with Nortel IP. Nortel was stupid enough to outsource to China in the first place. China turned around and went "we made this" with everything. They were so bad with it that they didn't even bother taking out the code notations of the Nortel engineers. China was so hungry they had the nortel offices bugged top to bottom. Our DND tried to move into Nortels old campus and had to scrap plans because, and I'm not joking, too many bugs.
Pot, meet Mr. Kettle (Score:2)
Is this the same Huawei who copied Cisco firmware wholesale and didn't even bother to change the copyright notices?
"China court"? (Score:2)
Is "China" an adjective now? Would you say "America court rules against..."?
China favoring it's own.. (Score:3)
What were the patents? (Score:2)
Sino-Korean Politics Fueling This (Score:5, Insightful)
The irony of this hamfisted approach by the Chinese is that its actually galvanized Korean political sentiment against them. Whereas before, there was a robust debate on whether or not to deploy THAAD, with the anti-THAAD faction ascendant following the fall of the Korean president, the economic retaliation has temporarily shut down that debate. In polls, China has even passed Japan as the most hated country by South Koreans after North Korea [scmp.com] due to this kerfuffle. If you know anything about the love-hate relationship between South Korea and Japan, this is a BIG deal.
Samsung Versus Huawei (Score:1)
The odds of Samsung--a Korean company being punished by China for daring to attempt to protect themselves from North Korea--winning against a Chinese company in China are roughly equal to me being declared the new Chinese Emperor.