Chinese firm BOE could be banned from the USA for close to 15 years for stealing Samsung Display's OLED technology.

Samsung Display has scored an unprecedented victory against its rival BOE for stealing its OLED technology.

In 2023, it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Chinese firm BOE with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC).

Samsung recently won that lawsuit, and the commission’s ruling is expected to effectively ban BOE’s products from entering the USA.

  • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The truth is innovation has always thrived most when knowledge is shared. Open scientific collaboration, communal traditions, and open-source projects show that people create because of curiosity, necessity, and the desire to contribute to something larger than themselves. Profit may push some short-term developments, but the deepest breakthroughs often come from cooperation and the joy of discovery. Human creativity has never needed private ownership to flourish; it has always been strongest when ideas circulate freely, building on each other without artificial barriers.

    We’ve been conditioned to believe innovators only innovate for profit. You wouldn’t need protection from copycats if we didn’t have capitalism.

    • rxbudian@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      It’s true that innovation thrives if shared, but it still would suck for the innovaor without temporary protection. Maybe he gets satisfaction from inventing some fancy stuff, but it doesn’t pay the bills if the next day someone in china just make a cheaper copy of the invention and outsell the innovator. It would be even worse if that person in china, not only copy the invention, but made it better.
      It’s fantastic for us as a consumer because it’s cheaper and better of course