FINAL OUTCOME
Settled (no final ruling)
SETTLED · Settled
After three years of infringement and invalidity suits, the companies cross-licensed patents and withdrew everything. There is no final ruling on infringement.
- Original
- Amorepacific Air Cushion · Unknown
- Compared
- LG H&H Cushion products · Unknown
- Launch gap
- Gap unknown
- Alleged
- Technology, Container
- Licence
- Licence confirmed — Cross-licence signed when the dispute ended (12 Nov 2015)
- Rights
- Patent
Look at how it actually ended, not at how alike it looks. An allegation is not a finding.
ALLEGATION → RESPONSE → DECISION → OUTCOME
Allegation
Amorepacific (2012) — Sued LG H&H for infringing its cushion patent [Patent] · 시사경제 (C)
Company response
Nothing confirmed
Court / agency decision
Courts and IP trials (infringement suit and invalidation counter-claims) · Settled · 2015-11-12 — Settled
Final outcome
SETTLED — Ended by settlement, no final ruling
SIMILARITY MATRIX
What was said to be alike, item by item
- Launch
- Unknown → Unknown · Gap unknown
- Technology
- Similarity alleged — Sponge-impregnated cushion structure
- Container
- Similarity alleged
- Product name
- Different
- Licence
- Licence confirmed
- Legal conclusion
- Settled (no final ruling)
No automatic image-similarity score is used; looking alike is not legal infringement. Official images are added once usage rights are confirmed.
TIMELINE
In order
- 2012 LEGALAmorepacific sues for patent infringement · 시사경제 (C)
- 2012~2015 LEGALLG H&H counter-sues for invalidity; three-year fight · 시사경제 (C)
- 2015-11-12 OUTCOMECross-licence; all suits withdrawn · 시사경제 (C)
LEGAL PROCESS
Each decision and its reasons
Courts and IP trials (infringement suit and invalidation counter-claims) · Settled
2015-11-12 · Patent · Settled · 시사경제 (C)
- Mutual non-exclusive licences (Amorepacific’s cushion patent ↔ LG’s tooth-whitening patch patent) and all related suits withdrawn
Reasons are short paraphrases of the cited source only.
UNKNOWN
Left blank for lack of a source
- Rulings at each stage
- Air Cushion launch year (from these sources)
- Licence terms
No “saved R&D cost” estimate is made without real data.
SOURCES
Checked 2026-10-08. Not legal advice. Know of an error or a later ruling? Tell us.