[WIPSTUDY #1] Taiwan- Patent Litigation case study #1

In this study, 

we're going to find out that Taiwan lawsuit filed in US litigation reviewing real cases that Taiwan corporations and Korean corporations focusing on;

• Case Search
• Statistics
• Docket Information

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1-1. Case Search and Statistics

wipsglobal.com> US litigation search

◀US litigation 2016-2018.

Total 13,813 litigation cases in the entire US area for the latest 3 years. The result narrow it down to 13,030 cases by grouping litigation unit.  

(Left) 89% of cases closed in Federal District Court, 9% to CAFC (Court of Appeal for Federal Circuit) and only 1% to ITC (International Trade Commission) and Supreme Court respectively. (Right) 25% cases were proceeded in Texas Eastern District Court followed by Delaware and California Central Court.
More than 40% of the total are concentrated in Texas and Delaware district court. 

Looking into Taiwan cases. 

wipsglobal.com> SmartAngle

There're total 11,939 patents involved with the all 13,813 US litigation.

Among them, Asian cases are in the order of Japan, Korea, Taiwan....   and Taiwan accounts for 1% with 110 cases.

The 1st applicants of the Taiwan cases filed in the US litigation during the same period are as below. 

wipsglobal> SmartAngle (2016-2018)

Then, what about the entire period? There're 90,564 litigation in the United States with 46,745 patents involved. Taiwan accounts for 1% with 509 cases out of total which is the same ratio above. 

Following chart is the 1st applicants from the top with the number of cases.  

wipsglobal> SmartAngle (no period)

By the top 10 applicants, it tells that most patent litigation is concentrated in the fields of electricity, electronics, semiconductor and computer.

We're going to review an real case on liquid crystal display between AU Optronics Corp.( ranked in 4th above) and Korean corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

1-2. Case Study

AU Optronics Corp. v Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

wipsglobal.com> US litigation search

• Case type : infringement
• Court : Delaware district court
• Product : Samsung's 46'' LCD TV model LN46C630K1F
• Plaintiff : AU Optronics Corp.
• Defendant : Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd et al. 4
• Patent : US 7286192

This is the infringement case filed on Jun. 27th, 2011 and closed on Jan. 27th, 2012 at the Delaware district court. It's about patent infringement AU Optronics applied for in 2007. As the owner of a patent right, they accused the 4 companies including Samsung Electronics. Case flow diagram shows it's closed at the Federal District step. 


1-3. Docket Review

This case is settled by patent cross license agreement. We can check the result of the case through the docket information. 

wipsglobal.com> US litigation search> view detail

view detail> docket information

◀ Patent cross license agreement

the docket says;
AU Optronics Corporation and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. buried the hatchet Friday in several lawsuits against each other over liquid crystal court and the U.S. International Trade Commission.











   





                                                                         
                                                                             

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