The Reputation Institutes RepTrakR100 study recognizes Samsung as the leader in corporate reputation defined by several criteria including social responsibility and citizenship, innovation, product and services excellence, and creating a great workplace environment.

“Delivering amazing products and services is just one part of the Samsung story,” says Gregory Lee, president and chief executive officer of Samsung Electronics North America. “Being recognized as an industry leading place to work that gives back to the communities we serve is a true honor.”

The Reputation Institute’s RepTrakR model is the gold standard for reputation measurement, providing a one-of-a-kind measurement of how the public views the world’s best-known companies. The study examines perceptions of companies by the US general public based on over 50,000 interviews. The RepTrakR database is normative, examining 15 stakeholder groups in more than 25 industries and more than 50 countries for more than 7,000 companies.

“Technology companies with strong reputations recognize that their reputations are dependent on more than just the products and services they provide,” says Brad Hecht, chief research officer at Reputation Institute (RI). “The second most important driver of reputation in the technology industry is governance, or whether a company is responsibly run, fair and transparent.”

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Reputation Institute (RI) is the world’s leading research-based consulting and advisory firm for reputation. RI enables many of the world’s leading companies to make more confident business decisions that build and protect reputation capital, analyze risk and sustainability topics, and drive competitive advantage. RI’s most prominent management tool is the RepTrakR model for analyzing the reputations of companies and institutions – best known via the Global RepTrakR 100, the world’s largest and most comprehensive study of corporate reputations, as well as Country RepTrakR and City RepTrakR studies that look at reputation across organizations within a given geography.

The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) recently ranked Samsung Electronics No. 1 among industry peers for possessing the largest number of 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) standard-essential patents (SEP). The ranking is based on a two-year- study by the TIPO, which culminated in a report titled, ‘2014 Results of Research on Telecom Technology Patent Trends and Patent Litigation Analysis.’

TIPO analyzed approximately 6,200 4G LTE/LTE-A related patents filed before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), focusing on SEPs that were essential to the 4G LTE/LTE-A standards. Samsung SEPs accounted for 17% of the 3,600 4G LTE/LTE-A SEPs owned by the 35 companies that were assessed.

“Through our relentless R&D efforts, our standard-essential patents have contributed to shaping the standards that have guided the evolution of the mobile telecommunications industry.” said Heungmo Lee, Senior Vice President and the Head of IP Prosecution Team, Digital Media & Communications R&D Center, Samsung Electronics.

Samsung has a long history of advancing mobile telecommunications technology. In 1998, Samsung first joined standardization organizations for mobile telecommunications technology, such as 3GPP. In 2001, the company won an important seat in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project.

With regards to 4G LTE mobile telecommunications technology, Samsung pursued the ambitious goal of establishing a leadership position in this area. To this end, Samsung developed telecommunications solutions and mobile devices while simultaneously conducting extensive R&D to strengthen the competitiveness of the company’s standardization efforts. As a result, Samsung was able to release the industry’s first commercial products and services embedded with LTE/LTE-A technology, as evidenced by the LTE dongle in 2009, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service in 2012 and Carrier Aggregation technology in 2013.