Abstract
On June 21, 2016, Wall Street Journal reporter Juro Osawa (2016) described the lawsuit that the Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies Co. filed against South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, Co., claiming that this company violated 11 of its mobile patents. Huawei’s strategy of becoming one of the world’s top smartphone manufacturers was the first significant legal challenge by a Chinese smartphone maker in U.S. courts.
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Notes
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See Sect. 4.4, below.
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See Sect. 1.5, above.
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In Chinese philosophy, Yin and Yang (“dark—bright”) describe how opposite or contrary forces are complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they interrelate to one another. People often think tangible dualities (such as light and dark, fire and water, expanding and contracting) are physical manifestations of the duality that Yin and Yang show.
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See Sect. 5.2 below.
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The threat of potential litigation has induced this particular form of patent trading. See Sect. 3.3 below.
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See Sect. 1.4 above.
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De Leon, I., Fernandez Donoso, J. (2017). Offensive IP Strategy: Litigation. In: Innovation, Startups and Intellectual Property Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54906-4_4
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