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... Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi Electronics Devices (USA), Inc., and Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc., subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Hitachi, Ltd., for defects in their LCD rear projection televisions with the model #50V500A. ... possible. 13. Consumer's experiences with these Televisions, however, have been completely contrary to what was explicitly represented by Hitachi. Consumers have been dismayed to find that the Televisions display not the clear, color accurate picture which they have ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hitachi Ltd (6501.T: Quote, Profile, Research), Japan's biggest electronics conglomerate, plans to exit the business of making small hard disk drives ... U.S.-based Cornice with plans to bring a product to market in 2007. No one at Hitachi or Fujitsu could be reached for comment. Small hard drives are increasingly being replaced by flash memory ... ) popular iPod as flash memory capacity improves and prices come down. Hitachi will focus on 2.5-inch and 3.5-drives, anticipating strong ...

AP: "A Tokyo court on Thursday ordered electronics maker Hitachi Ltd. to pay a total of 162 million yen ($1.53 million) in royalties to the inventor of a key technology for compact disc and digital video disc players."

It was mentioned here, that a DOJ Press Release reported that Hitachi Displays Ltd would be entering a guilty plea to "fixing prices for LCD panels sold to Dell, Inc." The plea would include a 31 million dollar fine. Business...

The Intellectual Property Owners Association has issued a report on the "Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2005." The top ten are: International Business Machines Corp. Hitachi, Ltd. Canon K.K. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Hewlett-Packard Co. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Micron Technology, Inc. Intel Corp. Siemens A.G. Toshiba Corp. Looking over the list, I wonder: is this more news that the world is flat, as claimed and demonstrated so well in Tom Friedman's book?

... List": 1 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP - 3148 2 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD KR - 2725 3 CANON K K JP - 1987 4 MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC ... HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO L P - 1470 11 HITACHI LTD JP - 1397 12 FUJITSU LTD JP - 1315 13 SEIKO EPSON CORP JP - ... - 856 16 DENSO CORP JP - 803 17 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC - 752 18 RICOH CO LTD JP - 728 19 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD ... HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC - 539 31 BROADCOM CORP - 533 SILVERBROOK RESEARCH PTY LTD AU - 533 33 XEROX CORP - 517 RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP JP - ...

... for 2006: 1 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP -- 3651 2 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD KR -- 2453 3 CANON K K JP -- 2378 4 MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL ... -- 2113 6 INTEL CORP -- 1962 7 SONY CORP JP -- 1810 8 HITACHI LTD JP -- 1749 9 TOSHIBA CORP JP -- 1717 10 MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC -- 1612 11 FUJITSU LTD JP -- 1513 12 MICROSOFT CORP -- 1463 13 SEIKO EPSON CORP JP -- ... TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC -- 884 19 SIEMENS AG DE -- 857 20 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD JP -- 836 21 SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC -- 776 22 DENSO CORP JP -- ...

... patent group has considerable influence over its own workload. I thought about this unusual aspect in the midst of reactivity when I read that "Hitachi Ltd. has boosted profits by pruning its patents. It scaled back its number of patent applications beginning in the early 1990s -- and still managed to more than double its licensing income. Before Hitachi files for a patent, the value derived from the innovation must be clearly defined, whether from licensing to earn direct revenue, ...

... tabulates the top ten patent assignees based on innovations filed in the U.S., the EU and Japan during 2007. The "top ten" list includes: (1) Konink Philips Electronics NV (2) Matsushita Electric Ind. Co. Ltd. (3) Sony Corp. (4) Samsung Heavy Ind. Co. Ltd. (5) Canon KK (6) General Electric Co. (7) 3M Innovative Properties Co. (8) Bayer AG (9) Hitachi Ltd. (10) Siemens AG Download a copy of the report here.

LG Elecs v. Hitachi, Ltd, 9:07cv138 (Dec. 3, 2007) Judge: Ron Clark Holding: Motion to Transfer Venue GRANTED Litigants have been waiting with bated breath for the first Eastern District opinion in a patent case followed the second panel's opinion in the In re Volkswagen II case in the Fifth Circuit (incidentally, en banc rehearing is pending in that case, and the Fifth Circuit has asked for a response). As far as I'm aware, today's opinion by Judge Clark was it. In it, ...