Since Samsung and Apple started patent litigation in April, 20 1 1, they have filed lawsuits against 20 patents in 9 countries, accusing each other of damaging their own patents. In August, the European Court of Justice ruled to suspend the sales of Samsung Galaxy products in Germany and the Netherlands. /kloc-0 At the beginning of 0/0, the Australian court suspended the sale of this product in Australia.
201101017 The American judge thought that Samsung had damaged Apple's patent right, and then Samsung issued a statement, hoping to stop the sales of the iPhone 4S in Japan and Australia during the investigation, and was applying to stop the sales of the iPhone and iPad 2. The products to which the ban applies are all related to the patents involved in this case.
20 12 in August, the U.S. district court of California made a first-instance judgment, claiming that Samsung Electronics infringed a number of Apple patents and needed to compensate the other party10.5 billion dollars. Samsung expressed dissatisfaction with this and appealed. 20 12 12 on February 7th, Apple and Samsung Electronics will hold another session in the federal court in San Jose, with a view to retrial of this high-risk legal lawsuit between the two parties. 20121219 In February, Samsung withdrew the patent infringement lawsuit filed against Apple in European countries. Samsung galaxy Co., Ltd. won a game in the patent shirtless battle with American Apple Company. The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that Samsung's products infringe on Apple, and some old Samsung products will be banned from being imported and sold in the United States.
20 13, 10 In June, US President Barack Obama did not veto the ban, and some Samsung smartphones and tablets will be banned in the US market, including Galaxy S, Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Tap. Earlier, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Samsung's old smartphones infringed on Apple's two commercial patents and prohibited Samsung-related products from being imported into the United States. Samsung once asked Obama to veto the ITC ban on the grounds of public policy, and ITC also submitted the punishment to Obama for a final ruling.
On October 2013165438+1October 2 1 day, a jury in San Jose District Court of California ruled that Samsung Electronics should pay the former $290.45 million in compensation for infringing Apple's patent. Apple had previously filed a claim of $379.8 million, while Samsung Electronics said it should only pay $52.7 million.
20 15 12 After five years of trial, review and appeal, Samsung agreed to pay Apple 548 million dollars. However, if the US Patent and Trademark Office decides that Apple's patent is invalid, Samsung will demand a refund of the compensation.
Samsung stopped supplying Apple with iPad and MacBook batteries.
2012165438+1On October 25th, Samsung once again stopped supplying an important component to Apple: batteries for iPad and MacBook notebooks.
As early as 10, Samsung stopped supplying LCD screens to Apple. This has a far-reaching impact on Apple, because Samsung is the largest supplier of display screens for Apple's mobile terminals, with an annual delivery of tens of millions. Samsung Electronics seems to be expanding the list of discontinued supplies.
Sales account for nearly 20% of South Korea's GDP.
20 1 1 year, the total assets of Samsung group reached $343.7 billion, the net sales reached $221billion, and the net income was $2010.2 billion. This figure has reached111162.47 billion US dollars of Korea's total GDP. If calculated by net sales, this figure is even higher than Ireland's GDP of 20 1 1 year of 21766.9 billion US dollars, and it can rank 45th in the world.
China issued the first ticket for the price monopoly of overseas enterprises, and South Korean Samsung was fined.
2013,65438 10. On October 4th, the Price Supervision, Inspection and Anti-Monopoly Bureau of China Development and Reform Commission fined Samsung 1.0 1 billion yuan for colluding in manipulating the price of LCD panels in Chinese mainland from 200/kloc-0 to 2006.
Samsung's property rights dispute ends.
2065438+February 1 day, 2003, the South Korean court yesterday rejected the request of the family members of Samsung Electronics President Lee Kin-hee to compete for the 4. 1 trillion won (US$ 3.7 billion) equity of Samsung Group, thus allowing Lee Kin-hee to retain control over the family enterprise group.
Samsung breaks through 5G communication technology
Samsung announced in May of 20 13 that they had made a breakthrough in the research and development of 5G mobile communication technology, and the highest download rate reached 1Gbps. The working frequency band of Samsung's 5G cellular network communication technology is 28GHz. In the real-time signal exchange test, the company's experimental equipment achieved a download rate of 1Gbps. Samsung also said that the highest theoretical download rate of their 5G technology can reach 10Gbps.
High-end mobile phone crisis
20 13 In June, the sales of Samsung's flagship smartphone Galaxy S4 declined, and the market value of the company's stock evaporated in one day this Friday1200 million dollars. 20 13 Since June, Samsung has launched two versions of S4 smartphones in succession, but its share price has fallen, falling by more than 6% on Friday alone.
Samsung design defect storm: the company apologized and promised to extend the warranty of the faulty model for one year.
20 13, 10,1at 3: 30pm on October 23rd, Samsung formally apologized to China consumers through CCTV Financial Channel, and made a corporate rectification statement. And said that the problem mobile phone will be repaired free of charge.
Samsung Taiwan Province Province was fined $340,000 for hiring students to discredit HTC.
Following the media exposure in April of 20 13 that "Samsung hired students in Taiwan Province province to discredit HTC", Taiwan Province Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced in official website around 20 13 10/24 that Samsung's smearing of HTC had been verified and would be fined 340,000 US dollars.
20 13,13124 October, Yonhap News Agency said that the Taiwan Province Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced in official website that Samsung had been found guilty of smearing HTC and would impose a fine of $340,000 on Samsung.
Technical dispute
2014 65438+1On October 27th, Samsung Group agreed to pay 660 million US dollars to Ericsson, a Swedish mobile network equipment manufacturer, plus several years' patent fees, in order to settle the technology licensing dispute between the two parties.
Launch a new watch
20 14 At the 20 14 Mobile World Congress (hereinafter referred to as MWC) held in Barcelona, Spain, Samsung announced the launch of two new Gear series smart watches, Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo.
Among them, Gear 2 uses Tizen, another open source mobile operating system deeply developed by Samsung, instead of Google Android. This is also regarded as Samsung's fruitful efforts to get rid of its dependence on Google.
Breakthrough of graphene preparation technology
20 14 On April 4th, South Korea's Samsung Institute of Advanced Technology and Sungkyunkwan University announced that they have synthesized a graphene crystal that can maintain conductivity in a wider range, thus promoting the industrial production and commercialization of graphene materials. This research result was published in Science and Science Express.
2014165438+1On October 22nd, Samsung Electronics filed a complaint with NVIDIA in the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking to ban the sale of cg animation chips from NVIDIA in the American market. After the breakdown of the authorization negotiations, the litigation war between the two sides began to escalate, and Samsung sued NVIDIA to ITC on Friday.