In recent years, Chinese LED companies have made great achievements in overseas markets. However, if we look closely, we will find that these overseas companies have not really “goed outâ€. Because most of our LED companies are entering the overseas market in the form of “branding†or “generation processingâ€, the enterprises that actually enter the overseas market with their own brands can be said to be few and far between, which is very rare.
As China's economic development enters a new normal, the driving force of economic development is increasingly dependent on innovation, and the importance of intellectual property protection and innovation in economic development is gradually being highlighted.
It is foreseeable that in the future, the era of gaining market share through the "price war" approach like the domestic market will be gone forever. With intellectual property as the mainstay and relying on innovation and development as the driving force, it will become the new normal of future competition.
In the lighting industry, compared with the rest of the world, from the perspective of the number of appearance patents, there is no doubt that China's ancient towns have an absolute advantage. When it is worthy of recognition, it should also reflect on whether a paper certificate can resist the plagiarism. The direction of hard work is not only the design ability, but whether this figure can represent the difficulty of defending rights and activate the enthusiasm of enterprise innovation.
In 2017, the number of patent litigation cases in the LED industry has increased. Among them, domestic and foreign companies such as Japan Yahua, Yiguang and Seoul Semiconductor have been making efforts in the patent battlefield.
Nichia sue U Ultra infringement
Nichia Corp. and HTC added a lawsuit! Earlier, Yahua issued a statement stating that HTC’s flagship mobile phone HTC U Ultra is equipped with a white LED that is infringing on the Japanese YAG patent, which was in June. On the 29th, he filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the German Dusseldorf District Court.
Nichia has accused HTC and its subsidiaries HTC Europe Co. Ltd., HTC Germany GmbH, and Digital River Ireland Ltd., the e-commerce company responsible for HTC's European online store operations, infringing on the white LEDs that HTC U Ultra is equipped with. Infringement of the key patent EP 0936682 (ie German patent number DE 69702929) of YAG white LED, and requires HTC and other companies to compensate for the damage.
Nichia is not the first time to be on HTC. It was previously because of the HTC Desire 626, which was equipped with white LEDs, which involved infringing two Japanese white LED patents, and made Japan’s Yahua in October 2016. The case was filed in Tokyo, Japan, and the HTC NIPPON CORPORATION and its dealers were allegedly infringed. The court case has not been further followed.
Seoul Semiconductor wins Kmart patent infringement
Seoul Semiconductor, Korea's first LED professional manufacturer, won a patent lawsuit against Kmart in the United States. Kmart is a large global retailer with a 120-year history and annual sales of 30 trillion won (about US$26 billion). Due to the infringement of Seoul Semiconductor's LED patents, it decided to accept Seoul Semiconductor's request to discontinue sales of related products.
Seoul Semiconductor said that LED bulbs sold by Kmart infringe on our company's LED bulb manufacturing including high color rendering technology, phosphor combination technology, multi-chip placement technology, LED epitaxial layer growth and chip manufacturing technology, and Omni direction LED bulb technology. The necessary patents, so in September last year, targeting Kmart, Seoul Semiconductor filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the federal court in California.
At that time, the infringement patents claimed by Seoul Semiconductor also included the original patent related to the filament LED invented by Seoul Semiconductor Technical Consultant and the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014.
Regarding whether or not patent infringement, the two sides launched a fierce offensive and defensive war. Finally, Kmart reached an agreement with Seoul Semiconductor to respect Seoul Semiconductor patents and stop selling LED bulbs. Seoul Semiconductor won a patent lawsuit against Kmart, a large US retailer.
Silicon nitride filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Rayvio
On May 23, 2017, Nitrided Semiconductor Co., Ltd. ("Nitriding") filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the federal court in the Northern District of California.
In the indictment, GaN is seeking bans, damage and accounting, claiming that Rayvio has infringed on the patent for nitrogen nitride (US 6,861,270, "Methods for the manufacture of gallium nitride compound semiconductors and luminescent elements"), manufactured Its products. This patented invention greatly promotes the improvement of LED luminous efficiency.
New progress in Mitsubishi Chemical and Intel's patent war
Mitsubishi Chemical and National Research and Development Corporation's Substance Materials Research Institute announced that China's Infineon Optoelectronics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. on November 2, 2016 for MCC and NIMS is widely used in China for LED red phosphors. The patent (Chinese Patent No. ZL 201110066517.7, hereinafter referred to as "this patent" (Note 1)) has submitted a review decision to the Patent Reexamination Board on May 10, 2017, and the committee completely rejected the English Temei Optoelectronics maintains the validity of this patent.
This patent is one of the basic patent groups covering a wide range of red phosphors of the nitride type known as CASN, SCASN or 1113 phosphors (Note 2) and LEDs, lighting fixtures and LCD backlights using the same.
Yiguang sued Seoul Semiconductor for infringement
On May 4, 2017, Everlight Electronics filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the German Mannheim District Court, accusing Seoul Semiconductor of infringing the patented technology of Everlight.
Everlight Electronics requested the court to issue an injunction against Seoul Semiconductor's infringing products, including prohibition of trafficking, manufacturing, import and export, recycling, inventory destruction and damages.
Jingdian filed patent infringement lawsuit against Lowe's
Jingyuan Optoelectronics issued a press release on May 4th. The company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Lowe's Companies, Inc. and Lowe's Home Centers, LLC (hereinafter referred to as Lowe's) in the US District Court for the District of California at US$2017/04/28.
In the complaint, Jingdian pointed out that Kewler Lighting and Utilitech products sold by Lowe's infringed several patents for crystal electricity, and applied for an injunction to prohibit Lowe's from continuing to sell infringing Kichler Lighting and Utilitech products.
Lieneng Lighting v. A light source factory patent infringement
Lineng Lighting sued a lighting patent infringement case of Zhongshan Lighting Co., Ltd. and Zhongshan Guzhen Lighting Appliance Factory (2016 Yue 73 Minchu 1476) finally fell, Lieneng Lighting has received the Civil Judgment of Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court And the "Certificate of the Effectiveness of the Judgment Document" and other documents.
In the case, the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court ruled that Lieneng Lighting won the case, and the defendant Zhongshan Lighting Co., Ltd. and Zhongshan Guzhen Lighting Appliance Factory infringed the design of the “decorative cover (LED bulb)†design patent (application number ZL201430491047. 3) The facts are true.
The court ruled that the defendant unit Zhongshan Lighting Co., Ltd. stopped selling infringing products. The defendant unit Guzhen Lighting Appliance Factory in Guzhen City compensated the plaintiff Lieneng Lighting for economic losses, stopped production, sales, promised to sell infringing products, and destroyed inventory products and publicity materials. And molds for making infringing products. The above judgment results have been legally effective on March 8, 2017.
Seoul Semiconductor Raises High Power LED Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Seoul Semiconductor said on April 13 that it has filed a lawsuit against the German electronic component distributor Mouser Electronics for infringing its high-power LED-related patents in the Düsseldorf District Court.
According to Seoul Semiconductor related sources, the patent infringement products are high-power LEDs produced by Everlight Electronics and most LED manufacturers, the world's top ten LED manufacturers. Mouser has become the object of this lawsuit because of the sales and circulation of LED products manufactured by these companies.
In the lawsuit, Seoul Semiconductor required the infringement prohibition order, recall and destruction of infringing products and damages for these infringing products.
Nichia's "opposite" Hongqi, EBV
Nichia issued a press release to express that the German Dusseldorf Court of Appeal made a judgment on January 20, 2017 (Case No.: I-2 U 41/12), and recognized the Taiwanese LED manufacturer Hongqi Technology. The four white LED products of the company ("Hong Qi Technology") infringe the YAG patent of Nichia Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Japan") (EU No. EP 0 936 682, Germany corresponds to DE 697 02 929) number).
According to the description of Nichia, the white LED products of Hongqi Technology involved in the case include: "HT-V116TW", "HT-U158TW", "HT-P178TWU-PQPS-DG" and "HT-T169TW". Product.
The Dusseldorf District Court of Germany decided to support Nichia on March 29, 2012, and determined that the above-mentioned LED products of Hongqi Technology infringe on the patent rights of Nichia. After that, Hongqi Technology filed an appeal, this time in January 2017, all rejected by the German Dusseldorf Court of Appeal.
In addition, Nichia said that the company filed a German distributor EBV Elektronik GmbH & Co. KG and EBV Management GmbH (collectively "EBV") at the District Court in Dusseldorf, Germany on February 22, 2017. Infringement of patent litigation.
In response to the above-mentioned press release issued by Nichia, Yiguang firmly believes that the product has not infringed on the Japanese patent, and will assist customers in responding to the lawsuit and defending the rights and interests of customers. The fact that the aforementioned Everlight won the successful judgment remains unchanged and is not affected.
Lynk reached a settlement with Acuity Brands and Schneider
Lynk Labs, Inc., Acuity Brands, Inc. and Schneider Electric have reached a settlement agreement on all the requirements in the patent litigation filed by Lynk Labs in June 2015. The financial terms and other details of the settlement are kept confidential.
Under the agreement, Acuity and its affiliates are licensed in part by a patent portfolio owned by Lynk Labs.
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