According to industry sources on the 17th, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has determined that automotive component companies from Taiwan and the United States have infringed upon multiple patents held by Hyundai and Kia.On the same day, the ITC announced through a public notice that t
The national competitiveness ranking of Korea, invited to the Group of Seven (G7) Summit scheduled from May 19 to 21 in Hiroshima, Japan, has emerged as the sixth in the world, demonstrating a level comparable to G7 nations.On May 17, the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) announced the findings
The author is an analyst for NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at jooyh@nhqv.com -- Ed.High-base effect at the department store division and weak earnings at subsidiary Shinsegae International are disappointing. However, we maintain a positive view as conditions at the DFS business, a ke
Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm will become one team in an antitrust dispute trial against U.S.-based semiconductor company Broadcom. The two have agreed to do so as they have suffered from long-term exclusivity agreements that Broadcom demanded they sign. Qualcomm, which was fined 1 trillion won (
China’s No. 1 display maker BOE has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung in China. Industry analysts say this is a retaliatory move by BOE, which competes with Samsung in the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel market.BOE recently sued Samsung Display, Samsung Display China, and
Samsung Electronics has suffered from an abuse of power at the hands of Broadcom, a U.S.-based semiconductor company, after a similar incident involving Qualcomm. Broadcom had proposed to the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) to pay 20 billion won (US$15 million) in stimulus funds as a voluntary co
The author is an analyst for NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at jooyh@nhqv.com -- Ed.We raise our TP on Hotel Shilla to W110,000. The firm’s 1Q23 results beat estimates, and its fundamentals are improving, as expceted. Now is the time to raise expectations rather than worry about Korea
The author is an analyst for Shinhan Securities. He can be reached at sanghoonpure.cho@shinhan.com -- Ed.1Q23 earnings surpriseHotel Shilla posted operating profit of KRW34.5bn (+128% YoY) on sales of KRW752.1bn (-31.3% YoY) in 1Q23, beating the market consensus by a wide margin. The earnings surpri
As Samsung Electronics has considered changing the default search engine for Galaxy smartphones from Google to Microsoft (MS), a crack has appeared in a 12-year-long relationship between Samsung Electronics and Google. Under these circumstances, as the launch of Google’s first foldable smartphone is
Competition is heating up in the foldable smartphone market, which has emerged as a future growth driver in the smartphone industry. Samsung Electronics, the worldwide leader in the foldable phone market, is facing a challenge from Google of the United States following Chinese companies.Foreign medi
Samsung Electronics received a jury verdict to pay about 400 billion won in compensation in a U.S. semiconductor patent infringement lawsuit. Earlier, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) was blocked from exporting Korean nuclear power plants to Eastern Europe due to a property rights infringement law
ZKW, a subsidiary of LG Electronics in the automotive lighting business, was listed as the company that applied for the third-most patents in Europe last year among Austrian companies.According to ZKW on April 14, ZKW accounted for 61 (close to 30 percent) of 224 patents filed by Austrian companies
LG Display is struggling looking for an exit strategy for its Chinese business amid a prolonged slump in the liquid crystal display (LCD) panel industry. The company is facing various scenarios including, sale to a Chinese company and a large-scale process transformation, as it urgently needs to imp
Coupang Inc. announced on April 13 that its patent portfolio has grown by more than 80 percent year-on-year as of 2022. The Korean e-commerce giant has been steadily increasing its patent portfolio in various fields such as logistics, shopping, and information security.In 2022, Coupang registered ab
Bizmodeline is claiming that Apple Pay infringed upon its patent. It is an intellectual property company that owned more than 1,500 patents at the end of last year.According to the company, the payment method of Apple Pay infringes upon its patent applied for in 2005. According to the patent, a user
bereum, a company specializing in heat-killed lactic acid bacteria postbiotics, and Dx&Vx, a bio-health care company, signed an MOU on April 5th. Through this agreement, the two companies plan to target the microbiome market by conducting joint research, such as analyzing not only lactic acid bacter
A truly postbiotic product containing only postbiotics, which consumers have been eagerly awaiting in their interest in a healthy life, is about to be released in pharmacies.Based on a SCI-level paper by bereum Co., Ltd., formerly known as BeRM, a pharmacist academic symposium was held at Baropharm
While Samsung Display filed an OLED panel patent infringement lawsuit against U.S. component makers, BOE, the largest display company in China, is attracting attention as the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has decided to launch an investigation of BOE. Samsung Display took this action to
The Nikkei reported on April 4 that a total of 9,862 patents were valid as of the end of last year in the field of innovative battery development for EV and renewable energy. “China owned 5,486 out of the total, followed by Japan (1,192), the United States (719), South Korea (595), and France (128),
Just in six months since launching the GlucoMen Day PUMP, a blood sugar control solution, in Europe, EOFlow is facing a sales suspension on the product. Insulet, the No. 1 insulin pump company in Germany, has been granted a preliminary injunction related to a patent in Germany, halting local sales o