Samsung has urged its South Korean tech rival LG to ‘fess up and apologise after several of its execs were indicted on charges of orchestrating corporate espionage relating to Samsung’s OLED display technology. Eleven people were charged on Sunday with leaking the technology from Samsung, according to Korean newswire Yonhap. …

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Tuesday 17th July 2012 10:08 GMT JaitcH

For once, the usual suspects, the ...

Chinese, aren't involved.

A refreshing change.

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Tuesday 17th July 2012 11:27 GMT Anonymous Coward

Maybe....

Samsung is worried about Apple getting their hands on the details of the technology where Apple's lawyers will discover that it infringes on their patents for anything cool that could be used on mobile phones/tablets/shiny things...

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1. Tuesday 17th July 2012 17:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Maybe....
  
  Fixed it for you
  
  Samsung is worried about Apple getting their hands on the details of the technology, patenting it as their own, and then suing Samsung for IP infringement.
  
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Tuesday 17th July 2012 11:56 GMT Tom 7

Did they nick it or was it obvious?

I don't know what's involved here but if software patents are anything to go by it could be that the secrets are only secrets to lawyers and judges and pretending the bleeding obvious is something amazing and 'protecting it' to prevent your competitors screwing two things together could be a new trend.

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Tuesday 17th July 2012 12:17 GMT Tom 35

it stands to lose “trillions of won” from the leak.

Did they hire an ex record company exec?

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1. Tuesday 17th July 2012 14:08 GMT Goes to 11
  
  Re: it stands to lose “trillions of won” from the leak.
  
  That is very, very Won indeed.
  
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2. Tuesday 17th July 2012 14:22 GMT Psyx
  
  Re: it stands to lose “trillions of won” from the leak.
  
  They could have just said "twilli-won"...
  
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  1. Tuesday 17th July 2012 14:34 GMT Sir Barry
    
    Re: it stands to lose “trillions of won” from the leak.
    
    I read that in the voice of Jonathan Ross...
    
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Tuesday 17th July 2012 15:20 GMT BleedinObvious

LG confession

"We do not need Samsung's technology which works under a totally different display system."

And how would they know? I rest my case :)

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1. Tuesday 17th July 2012 22:00 GMT stanimir
  
  Re: LG confession
  
  reverse engineering happens
  
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Wednesday 18th July 2012 11:57 GMT Alan Brown

@JaitcH

Or the americans.

You thought echelon was there for finding bad guys?

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