Samsung recently filed a lawsuit against BOE in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.bring the action, accusing it of infringing a total of five patents related to OLED display panel technology.
The reason for initiating this lawsuit is that Samsung discovered that mobile phone repair shops, including Captain Mobile Parts in Texas, replaced display panel parts from Chinese companies when repairing models such as the iPhone 12. Therefore, at the end of last year, on the grounds of patent infringement, it applied to the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban repair shops from importing such panel parts from China.
However, Chinese companies such as BOE, CSOT, Tianma, and Visionox have jointly filed an application to invalidate Samsung's patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in response. BOE even filed a lawsuit in April this year at the Chongqing First Intermediate People's Court in China, alleging that Samsung infringed its own OLED display panel technology patents in the Chinese market.
The lawsuit filed in Texas is clearly Samsung's counterattack against BOE.
From a market perspective, this is actually because Samsung's product sales have been affected. After all, if mobile phone repair companies choose to replace their phones with relatively low-priced OLED display panels, this will inevitably affect Samsung's revenue opportunities from selling display panel parts through mobile phone repairs. In addition, more and more mobile phones are now switching to display panels provided by Chinese companies. Therefore, Samsung must adopt tough measures to maintain its market sales scale.
