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2011
Did Motorola indirectly help Samsung strengthen its hand in display technologies?
Universal Display out of New Jersey has licensed its OLED technology to Samsung through the year 2017. IPBlog wonders how much of Motorola’s trade secrets on organic luminescence display technology will now end up with Samsung, as ktMINE reveals a late 2000, broad-reaching agreement with Universal Display Corporation as a licensee of Motorola OLED patents and knowhow. (Licensing trade secrets can be tricky, and can eventually come back to haunt licensors. To see how others have incorporated trade secrets into their licenses, see BVR’s Licensing Trade Secrets: Overview and Sample Agreements.)