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An Analysis Of Patent System And Antitrust Law Issues In Oled Display Industry: Focusing On The Patent Strategy For Securing Technologies And Materials, Meyoung Ju Joung
An Analysis Of Patent System And Antitrust Law Issues In Oled Display Industry: Focusing On The Patent Strategy For Securing Technologies And Materials, Meyoung Ju Joung
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This dissertation presents an analysis of patent system and antitrust law issue in OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display industry focusing on the patent strategy for securing technologies and materials. Material patent holders of multinational companies wielding great market power in OLED industry have pursued a variety of strategic patenting including combination inventions and broadly claimed inventions to maintain their competitive position by extension of the market exclusively beyond the legitimate scope initially granted by the patent within the current regulatory framework. Recently, their questionable patents have been challenged through patent invalidation trials brought by prospective infringers, claiming that the …