KYOTO, Japan, July 30, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Nidec Corporation ("Nidec") (NYSE:NJ) today announced that it has filed lawsuits in the Osaka District Court on July 30, 2008 against Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. ("SEMCO"), an electronic components manufacturer based in Korea, for infringement of three Japanese patents (No. 3344913, 3502266, 3688015) regarding Nidec's spindle motors mainly used for CD/DVD drives.
Nidec has confirmed that certain disk drives currently sold in Japan use SEMCO's infringing spindle motors and requests injunctions to preclude SEMCO from marketing such motors in the Japanese market.
Nidec respects intellectual property rights of others and expects others to do likewise.
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