ITRI sues LG over patent dispute
Taiwan’s semi-official Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has sued LG Electronics, accusing it of infringing 22 of its US registered patents covering the fields of mobile phones, air conditioners, blue-ray discs, and LCD displays.
According to ITRI, if the court does not block LG’s actions, then it will suffer additional irreparable harm for which there is no adequate remedy at law and impairment of the value of its patent rights.
The case is similar to the IP litigation between Acer and HP three years ago, when the former successfully used the support of the ITRI to force the latter in accepting a settlement.
As per LG’s statement, it will act appropriately when it receives the official court documents, which it expects later this month.
The ITRI is a technology developer that was founded in 1973 and is partly funded by the Taiwan government.
CHT picks Ericsson for LTE trial
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s leading operator by subscribers has signed an MOU with Ericson to set up a small-scale Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband trial network in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan.
The basic network infrastructure including the base stations and network management systems for the 4G network will be provided by Ericsson.
The companies have set their target and are confident to complete their first testing phase by mid-2010. According to the reports of CommsUpdate, Chunghwa is looking forward to launch LTE services in 2011.
The company is also functioning with six firms including the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), HTC, HT mMobile, Asustek Computer, Coiler and the Institute for Information Industry (III) to develop LTE products in preparation for a commercial launch.
