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Vringo continues suing ZTE

Mannheim, Germany, December 2012:  VRINGO GmbH – a subsidiary of VRINGO, Inc. – has initiated a patent infringement lawsuit filed against ZTE Corp., China, and its German subsidiary, ZTE Deutschland GmbH (“ZTE”). This is just one among a series of several corresponding multi-national suits. VRINGO is a company engaged in the innovation, development and monetization of mobile technologies and intellectual property and is considered to be one of the so-called patent trolls or NPEs.

Study confirms that active innovation generates more added value

The German Institute on Economics (DIW) has stated in a study published in autumn of this year that enterprises actively investing in Research and Development generate 57% more added value per employee than less innovative competitors.

LG requests to stop selling cars from BMW and AUDI in Korea

LG has started patent litigation in Korea and tries BMW and AUDI to stop selling the respective automobile models in Korea. The subject matter of the suit are LED flood lights by OSRAM which have been implemented in the auto models. This is probably a counter-attack as OSRAM had started patent litigation in Korea earlier with the attempt to force LG and SAMSUNG to stop exporting several types of LEDs. Corresponding suits had also been established in the U.S., Japan and China before.