Samsung and LG have agreed to resolve their OLED dispute outside of the court of law, and on February 12 Samsung dropped their injunction against LG. Now LG Display announced that dropped their injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1, and the company will seek a resolution "through an amicable negotiation".

Samsung and LG have been involved in a legal battle over OLED (and other technologies) IP for almost a year now. DisplaySearch speculated that the two Korean giants may eventually collaborate on OLED technology, mostly due to fear from Japanese competition. Earlier today we reported that Sony and Panasonic may setup an OLED TV production joint venture, and if true this may accelerate a Korean partership as well.

Apple's CEO may say that OLEDs aren't good enough, but every so often we hear of a new Apple patent that deals with OLED displays. Today's new patent (filed in August 2011 but revealed today) describes a flexible screen that can turn into a warp-around bracelet using a bi-stable spring. The patent specifically mentions OLED technology because in the bracelet state most pixels will be off.

Apple is reportedly working on the iWatch - a wearable device that may or may not sport a PMOLED display. A flexible display will be great, but I wouldn't expect the technology to be ready just yet for Apple...

According to OLEDW (quoting Japan's Sankei Shimbun), Sony and Panasonic are planning to setup an OLED TV production joint venture in 2013. There's no production schedule, but it's likely that Sony and Panasonic are aiming to start doing so in 2014 or 2015.

The two companies announced their OLED technology partnership in June 2012 - saying that the two companies will jointly develop printing based technologies for OLED TV mass production. Back then it was rumored that they may indeed choose to do the actual production together as well, but nothing has been decided till now.

Earlier in February, reports from Korea suggested that Samsung Electronics will host a press conference on February 19 to finally launch its OLED TV in Korea. This did not happen, but Samsung did say in a press release that they plan to start selling OLED TVs in the first half of 2013.

Samsung's F9500 (full model number: KN55F9500) is a 55" Full-HD Real OLED TV. The OLED panel uses direct-emission RGB OLED subpixels, hence the "Real" title. The TV offers all sorts of smart features and active 3D (with MultiView).

LG Display announced today that they have decided to install a new Gen-8 OLED TV mass production line in their Paju plant, in a 706 billion Won (about $650 million) investment. LGD will start constructing the new line in Q1 2013 and mass production will begin in H1 2014.

The monthly capacity of LG's new line will be 26,000 substrates - or about 150,000 55" panels. Of course this is assuming 100% yield. LG's yields are currently very low - probably at around 30% (at best). If this remains so, the new line's capacity will be around 50,000 55" panels in a month.

It seems that a lot of people (more than one, honest) want to know more about me, and how I got interested in OLEDs. It seems like a very strange turn of events for me too, but that's how life goes.

So my name is Ron Mertens, 38 years old from Herzelia, Israel (near Tel-Aviv), where I live with my two beautiful daughters. I'm a software engineer by trade, and from 1998 to 2005 I worked for three different companies (coding and designing software modems, compilers and ad delivery networks).

Last month we reported about the EU's new €11.2-million 3-year project called Flex-o-Fab that aims to help commercialize flexible OLEDs within six years. Today we hear that one of the project partners, UK's Epigem, will get €444,000 to produce anode film based on its existing Epimesh product. Epimesh features very low sheet resistance and high optical transparency.

Epimesh film is an ultra-fine metal mesh embedded into a polymer coating which is adhesively bonded onto one side of a flexible carrier film. Epigem says that light transmission (through both the metal grid and the polymer layers) is above 90%.

Tridonic announced a new 99x99 mm LED module called the LUREON REP, that features high efficiency (50 lm/W) and high light output (100 lm). Other features: 4000K color temperature, CRI > 80 and a low color angle shift. Tridonic says that the high brightness coupled with the high efficiency will allow them to use OLEDs in professional lighting applications. The LUREON REP modules will be available in mid-March.

Philips GL350 is actually brighter at 115 lm (it's larger though at 124x124 mm), but it is far less efficient at 16.7 lm/W. LG Chem has panels which are more efficient (or at least they will have ones later in 2013) than the new Tridonic module.

Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, said that OLED displays aren't good enough for Apple - the colors are too saturated and the screen is not bright enough. "If you ever buy anything online and really want to know what he color is, as many people do, you should really think twice before you depend on the color from an OLED display", says Cook.

Back in September DisplayMate posted an interesting and comprehensive comparison between the iphone 5 IPS-LCD and the Super AMOLED HD display used in the Galaxy S3. Indeed the call Apple's display as the superior display. The color accuracy of Samsung's OLED is something that can be calibrated, and I'm sure that if Apple wanted Samsung could have made a very accurate OLED. DisplayMate does like OLED displays and thinks they have a great future (and they say that LG's OLED TV is the best TV they have ever seen).

IDTechEx expects the OLED display market to reach $10 billion in 2013 (up from about $6 billion in 2012). The market will grow to about $17.5 billion in 2015 and will reach $25 billion in 2017.

The company expects only 1% of all OLED displays will be made using a printing process in 2018, and this will grow to 14% in 2023. Similarly, 1% of displays in 2018 will be flexible - and this will grow to 12% in 2023.