SAN FRAN­CIS­CO-A fed­er­al ju­ry says a Tai­wan com­pa­ny and two of its top ex­ec­u­tives are guilty of work­ing with com­peti­tors to in­flate prices of liq­uid screen dis­play screens used in com­put­er mon­i­tors and tele­vi­sions. Ju­rors in San Fran­cis­co yes­ter­day con­vict­ed the AU Op­tron­ics Corp, its US sub­sidiary and ex­ec­u­tives Hsuan Bin Chen and Hui Hsi­ung. They were found guilty of vi­o­lat­ing an­ti-trust laws.

Ju­rors couldn't reach a unan­i­mous de­ci­sion for Steven Le­ung, re­sult­ing in a mis­tri­al. Two oth­er ex­ec­u­tives were ac­quit­ted. Six oth­er Asian LCD screen mak­ers have plead­ed guilty to charges re­lat­ed to the price-fix­ing and have been or­dered to pay fines to­tal­ing more than $860 mil­lion. AU was the on­ly one to fight the charges at tri­al. AU's lawyer says the com­pa­ny plans to ap­peal.