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.
A patent system that does not grant a patent beyond 10 years. So nobody can sit on their inventions forever and deny the public the benefits which they extract out of public money. A patent system that requires a proven product in the market place and not a concept of a product in somebody’s imagination, to prevent patent trolls from stifling real innovation. A patent system that requires the patent producer to share the secrets with the public if public funding was used to develop a patent in any form.
A copyright system that actually understands product boundaries and doesn’t exist as a nebuluous concept of “This name is associated with us hence it violates copyright”. A copyright system that doesn’t prevent fair use.
This cannot happen under capitalism as it exists. So i am not really digressing.