Defendant

LG Display America Inc.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2013
Top venue
D. Delaware Wilmington
1 case

Company profile

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LG Display America, Inc. is the U.S. sales subsidiary of LG Display Co., Ltd., the South Korean flat-panel display manufacturer. It was incorporated on September 24, 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Parent LG Display Co., Ltd. lists it as a 100%-owned consolidated subsidiary whose business is "sales of display products" (LG Display Form 6-K / consolidated subsidiary schedules). The parent is publicly traded on the Korea Exchange (034220) and on the NYSE via ADSs (LPL), is based in Seoul, was incorporated in 1985, and is roughly 36–37% owned by LG Electronics Inc. Public sources put group revenue near KRW 21.3 trillion for 2023 and headcount in the 23,000–27,000 range. LG Display America's standalone employee count and revenue are not separately disclosed.

Operations. LG Display America distributes and supports the parent group's display panels in the U.S. market. The group designs and manufactures TFT-LCD and OLED panels for televisions, monitors, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, and automotive applications, and is a major supplier of large-size OLED TV panels, with panel plants in Korea, China, and Vietnam. LG Display America itself is a sales and customer-support entity, not a manufacturer.

Litigation posture. Operating company, predominantly on defense. The tracked docket shows one defendant case and one plaintiff case; the sole plaintiff-side appearance is an inter partes review petition at the PTAB — a defensive patent challenge rather than an affirmative infringement claim. This is the profile of a display maker absorbing NPE assertions rather than an entity asserting an acquired portfolio.

Notable cases. Delaware Display Group LLC et al. v. LG Electronics, Inc. et al. (D. Del., filed Dec. 31, 2013, No. 1:13-cv-02109) named LG Display America and LG Display Co. as defendants alongside LG Electronics. Delaware Display Group and co-plaintiff Innovative Display Technologies are Acacia Research subsidiaries; the asserted patents (e.g., U.S. 7,914,196 and the "light emitting panel assemblies" family, originally from Rambus/Solid State Opto) were acquired, and the NPEs' real parties in interest were identified as Acacia Research Group and Acacia Research Corp. LG Display's Aug. 21, 2014 PTAB petition against Innovative Display Technologies belongs to the same LCD-patent campaign, in which LG filed several IPRs (including IPR2015-00487, -00489, -00506). Related IDT/DDG suits against other display-product makers were filed in Delaware and the Eastern District of Texas.

Delaware Display Group LLC et al. v. LG Electronics Inc. et al.

litigated
Docket:
1:13-cv-02109
Filed:
2013-12-31

Delaware Display Group LLC and Innovative Display Technologies LLC sued LG entities in D. Del. on 2013-12-31. The case was consolidated with 1:13-cv-02108 and 1:13-cv-02112 for claim construction of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,434,974, 8,215,816, and 7,914,196 on 2015-11-06.