According to Korea Herald website December 5 reported that the invention of Samsung Electronics employees, the company claims 200 million won the cost of compensation, equivalent to 184,000 US dollars.The plaintiff also said that according to the court's relevant policies, he may also claim The amount increased to 5 billion won, equivalent to 4.6 million US dollars.
It is reported that the patent that the employee invented was related to communication of mobile devices, mainly data encoding and decoding in communication systems.
The technology triggered a previous patent lawsuit by Apple and Samsung Electronics Corp. Both companies sued each other for patent infringement, while in 2013 the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in favor of Samsung Electronics.
In his petition, the plaintiff said that while Samsung and Samsung were demanding that they actively support the company's lawsuit, Samsung, after winning the lawsuit, did not mention its name among patent inventors and did not give it to itself Appropriate financial incentives or job promotion.
Samsung Electronics did not comment further on the lawsuit, simply saying that the researcher over-exaggerated the value of his patented technology and in fact did not bring any value to the company's revenue or profits.
According to reports, the plaintiff was a senior technical researcher. During his time at Samsung Electronics, he worked for the Samsung DMC R & D Center and conducted research on a number of business projects, obtaining a total of 1,654 patents.
According to Article 15 of the existing Invention Promotion Act in Korea, if an employee invent new technology while working in a company and the company succeeds in obtaining a patent, the company must provide the inventor with appropriate financial compensation.
Samsung Electronics is the world's largest consumer electronics company, Samsung invested tens of billions of dollars each year to develop various technologies, its R & D investment is much higher than rival Apple Inc., the technological superiority allows Samsung Electronics launched curved screen, OLED , Face recognition and other advanced technologies to become the world's largest smartphone maker, and Apple jointly monopolized the high-end smart phone market.
For those engaged in technology research and development internal staff, Samsung Electronics has what kind of reward mechanism, is still unknown.
It is worth mentioning that a large number of litigation between Samsung Electronics and Apple has taken place and that some lawsuits have lasted for many years and still have no effect.Among them, in the "Samsung Plagiarism iPhone Design Lawsuit" that caused global public concern, the Supreme Court of the United States demanded that the grassroots The court to re-trial the case, the lawsuit will be reopened in May next year, although Samsung Electronics infringement of Apple patents have been established, but Samsung is seeking substantial reduction in the amount of compensation.Samsung Electronics was the first sentenced to $ 1 billion in compensation, but later reduced To 400 million US dollars, but Samsung still in question, conducted a number of appeals.