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The Delhi High Court in India Has Issued an Injunction, Restraining Sinopharm Weiqida from Exporting Its “Amoxycillin Trihydrate” Product to India, as It Infringes the Patent of Centrient Pharmaceuticals

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Centrient Pharmaceuticals (“Centrient”), the leading manufacturer of beta-lactam antibiotics, and a provider of next generation statins and anti-fungals, announced that the Delhi High Court in India has granted an injunction against Sinopharm Weiqida Pharmaceuticals and Sinopharm India, restricting the export and/or import into India of its active [...]

Supreme Court Orders Reconsideration of FTC’s US$243 mln Penalty Ruling on Qualcomm

SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has found that a 2009 penalty decision by the state antitrust watchdog against U.S. Qualcomm Inc. was not completely lawful, sending the case back to a lower court for reconsideration, court officials said Monday. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) fined the global chipmaker 273.2 billion [...]

BMW Korea Fined 14.5 bln Won over False Emissions Papers

SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday ordered the local unit of BMW AG to pay a fine of 14.5 billion won (US$12.9 million) for falsifying documents on gas emissions required by the South Korean government for domestic sales. Finding the automaker guilty of violating the customs law, the Seoul Central [...]

Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Suspect in Alleged Murder of Doctor

SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Wednesday decided to issue an arrest warrant for a man on charges that he killed a doctor while receiving treatment at a general hospital. The Seoul Central District Court said it acknowledges the necessity of detaining the suspect. The 30-year-old suspect, only identified by his [...]

Google Ordered to Partially Reimburse Mother for Bills Her Son Paid with Her Credit Card

SUWON, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A court said Friday it has ordered the South Korean unit of Google Inc. to repay a mother half of the money her son spent on mobile game items using her credit card without her permission. In a suit filed by the mother, the Suwon District Court found the [...]

Conscientious Objector Found Not Guilty on Appeal

SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A Jehovah’s Witness who was given a prison sentence at his first court trial for conscientiously objecting to military service was acquitted yesterday following an appeal. A local court in Changwon found a 24-year-old man not guilty on appeal after he was sentences to 18 months in prison in [...]

New Measure to Prevent Abuse of Jury System

SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A newly proposed measure to prevent defendants from freely withdrawing their request for a jury in a criminal trial after the case reaches the main district court may be put into place. This is to prevent defendants from abusing the system by asking for a jury then retracting the [...]

Court Recognizes Surrogate Mother as Legal Parent

SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A court ruled last Friday that a surrogate mother is legally the parent of the child she has given birth to, instead of the genetic parents. The Seoul Family Court made the appellate decision against a couple who filed the suit against a local district office for refusing to [...]

Korea’s First Remote Video Testimony Takes Place at Seoul Court

SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul Central District Court trial Wednesday featured a remote video testimony by a witness, the first of its kind to take place in Korea. During a service payment lawsuit between a design firm, the plaintiff, and an exhibitor, the defendant, witness Kim testified about the two firms’ contract [...]

Could Artificial Intelligence Replace the Role of a Judge?

SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – “No” and “it shouldn’t” were the answers by global scholars on artificial intelligence during Monday’s press conference for the 2016 International Judicial Symposium. The press conference featured Oren Etzioni, Director of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Roman Yampolskiy, Director of the Cyber-Security Lab at University of Louisville, [...]