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Electronics Seoul Semiconductor wins patent lawsuit vs Signify

Seoul Semiconductor Co., the world’s No. 3 light emitting diode (LED) display maker, said on Thursday it has won a patent litigation case agai...

Shareholder activism Seoul rejects Elliott’s $20 mn claim against Samsung C&T

Elliott Investment Management Corp. has lost a case against Samsung C&T Corp. in seeking 26.7 billion won ($20.2 million) compensation in connec...

Electronics US court dismisses suit against Samsung by ex-patent chief

A US court rejected a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. by a former intellectual property chief of the company and banned ...

Regulations LG Energy vows to get tough on battery patent infringement cases

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker in terms of sales after China’s CATL, said on Wednesday it will take s...

Bio & Pharma LegoChem Bio mulls name change after defeat to Lego

South Korean biopharmaceutical company LegoChem Biosciences Inc. is seeking to change its name after it lost in a trademark infringement lawsuit fil...

Regulations Broadcom fined $14.3 mn in Korea over Samsung contract

Broadcom Inc. a US smartphone components maker, was slapped with a fine of 19.1 billion won ($14.3 million) in South Korea on Thursday for allegedly...

Entertainment Netflix, S.Korea’s SK Broadband to settle longstanding legal dispute

Netflix Inc., the world’s top streaming service, and SK Broadband Co., South Korea’s No. 2 internet service provider, said on Monday tha...

Business & Politics American patent trolls target S.Korean companies

Over 80% of American companies that sued South Korean companies for patent infringement last year were non-practicing entities (NPE), or “pate...

Electronics Samsung Display sues BOE over iPhone 12 panel patents

Samsung Display Co. has stepped up its fight against BOE Technology over display panels, taking its first legal action against the Chinese rival ove...

Regulations S.Korea rejects Broadcom’s corrective steps on unfair biz

South Korea’s antitrust body dismissed corrective measures proposed by US chipmaker Broadcom Inc. to avoid penalties over its alleged unfair b...

Airlines Korean Air-Asiana merger hits roadblock in US, Europe

The proposed merger between South Korea’s two largest airlines hit a roadblock in the West as a media outlet reported that the US government i...

Electronics China’s BOE files patent lawsuits against Samsung

China’s BOE Technology has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Samsung Display Co., Samsung Display’s Chinese corporation and Sam...

Electronics Samsung faces $303 mn jury verdict in memory patent lawsuit in US

Samsung Electronics Co. lost a semiconductor patent infringement lawsuit filed in the US. The South Korean company received a jury verdict to pay ab...

Shareholder activism S.Korea’s KT&G engulfed in lawsuit against activist funds

The world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker KT&G’s battle against activist investors intensified as a group of funds sued the South Kore...

Bio & Pharma US calls on 2 S.Korean pharmaceutical companies for swift end to legal battle

Following its lawsuit against Daewoong Pharmaceutical, South Korea's Medytox Inc. is waging an all-out legal war against domestic counterpart Hugel ...

Energy Seoul in talks to share nuclear plant export profits with Westinghouse

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. and its parent company Korea Electric Power Corp. are in discussion with Westinghouse Electric Corp. to share pr...

Bio & Pharma Celltrion wins trial against Regeneron for US patent lawsuit over biosimilar

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. announced Friday that it won its first trial against New York-based biotech giant Regeneron Ph...

Cryptocurrencies Crypto investors threaten Terraform founders with class-action lawsuit

Cryptocurrency investors in South Korea have threatened to file a class action lawsuit against co-founders of the disgraced blockchain platform oper...

Mezzanine loans Mirae, NH face lawsuit over Drew Las Vegas loan loss

Mirae Asset Securities Co. and NH Investment & Securities Co. have been sued by South Korean institutional investors over the loss of their comb...

Mergers & Acquisitions Mirae Asset wins lawsuit against China’s Anbang over $5.8 bn US hotel deal

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. will be able to recover a $580 million deposit it paid to Anbang Insurance Group for a $5.8 billion deal to buy 1...

NPS confirmed to join €3.2 bn joint lawsuit against Volkswagen

South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension scheme, has joined the California pension fund CalPERS and other insti...