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LG-Philips files second LCD infringement suit against NEC

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LG-Philips LCD, the joint venture of South Korea's LG Electronics and Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, announced the filing of a second LCD patent infringement lawsuit against Japan’s NEC, along with NEC’s Packard Bell computer group and three other US-based subsidiaries. The lawsuit, like the one announced a month ago, was filed in the U.S. District Court in Delaware. In the case, NEC is accused of infringing on four specific LCD flat panel display patents. Another set of four LCD-related patents are the subject of the earlier case.

In both cases, LG. Philips LCD is asking for a jury verdict on its infringement claim as well as monetary damages. NEC officials insisted that the company had not infringed patents in the United States. It said it could not make further comments because it had not yet received details of the lawsuit. Separately, LG Philips LCD announced plans to invest more than $1 billion in production facilities. Output from the plants will generate $2.4 billion in new revenue during 2000.

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