2015 LED enterprise tearing force war highlights!

[LED] China network is no longer the season is no longer a radiant and enchanting spring scene, washeng bursts of season, gradually into a scattered vegetation Yannanfei season, August is already gone. In September, all through the temperature in the summer, with a hint of cool, elegant and come.

For the LED industry, in the eight months before quietly passing away in 2015, the overall development is good, but the market competition is increasingly intense, the price war, the patent battle, channel war smoke, big dispute can be described as one after another, one not careful "trouble" body. The following along with China LED network editor together to review the past eight months in the LED circle of the lawsuit door event, hoping to provide inspiration and reference for the relevant enterprises in 2015.

patent dispute

CREE to report on the patent infringement

In January, CREE (CREE Inc.) in the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) and the Wisconsin federal court to sue, accused of not listed American companies Feit Electric Co. and Taiwan donbei photoelectric violations of the company are encapsulated with LED LED chip, lighting design and operation related patents.

MITSUBISHI chemical accused Hilde and Intematix against red phosphor patent

MITSUBISHI Chemical Corporation in January 23, 2015, the Yantai Hilde new materials Co Ltd (Yantai Shield Advanced Materials Co., Ltd.) and Intematix Corporation (hereinafter referred to as: Intematix), red phosphor related basic patent infringement of Independent Administrative Corporation material - materials research institutions and the company jointly owned by China (Patent No. ZL201110066517.7, the following referred to as "the patent"), filed a lawsuit to Shenzhen City Intermediate People's court, asked to stop production and sales in the Chinese range of products such as fluorescent powder for infringement and compensate for the losses.

The lawsuit case renewed the strict protection of patent right LED Fort ord group

In March, sharp high Jennersdorf Limited (Tridonic Jennersdorf GmbH) in the German District Court for the District of AOC International (Europe B.V.) and AOC International (Europe) filed a lawsuit against GmbH, accused of infringement of its holdings and B.O.S.E. EP1352431 B1 patent alliance.

OSRAM accused ASUS of violating its white LED patent opener

At the end of 5, OSRAM announced that it was awarded the first instance verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit against ASUS, a consumer electronics manufacturer in Taiwan. OSRAM claims that some white LED used in ASUS's first generation of Nexus 7 Tablet PC violated its patent in Germany DE 19655185. Dusseldorf district court awarded OSRAM an injunction, and ruled that ASUS must compensate for the loss caused by patent infringement to OSRAM. ASUS filed an appeal against the verdict, while OSRAM started to enforce.

CREE was accused of infringing the patent LED Feit Electric

In July, Fett electric (Feit Electric) announced, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit to CREE company in the American state of North Carolina Central District court. Fett electric claimed that CREE's 4FLOW LED bulb violated its U.S. Patent No. 8408748 and 9016901.

GE lighting accused of violating its LED patent infringement of the United States

In August, recently, lighting science group (Lighting Science, Group Corporation, LSG) announced that the court in the Northern District of Ohio in the United States granted LSG's motion for summary judgment, and declared some patent GE lighting company is invalid, but rejected GE LSG's patent infringement claim for lighting. In this action, 6 LED GE lighting manufacturers including LSG, accused of infringing its two LED patents, respectively, U.S. Patent No. 6787999, called the "LED modular light source products and patent, U.S. Patent No. 6799864, called for the high power LED lamp module group patent".

Nichia in Germany WOFI company sued billion photons infringement

Japan LED (Nichia) and heating manufacturers Nichia between LED manufacturers in Taiwan billion light LED patent litigation after years of war, both sides have been on 31 August 2015, Nichia Dusseldorf District Court in Germany, according to Taiwan electronics Limited by Share Ltd (hereinafter referred to as the "billion light") of the German subsidiary WOFI Leuchten Wortmann & Filz GmbH (hereinafter referred to as "WOFI") accused of alleged violations of the accused Nichia patent, Nichia WOFI company, is the latest to YAG based patent (EP080 and EP053), ask the court to issue a permanent injunction, life WOFI put forward relevant books and damages. However, according to the EU EP billion light Nichia patent 936682 filed before the date of the patent invalid litigation, the court has been invalid.

Civil and trademark disputes

Civil action was received by the court summons Tianlong

In April, Jiangsu Huasheng Tianlong photoelectric equipment Limited by Share Ltd (hereinafter referred to as "the company") recently announced that the company received the Shanghai Huangpu District people's court summons and civil complaint, asked the company on May 25, 2015 at 10 in the morning to Shanghai Huangpu District City People's Court of the first court of Shanghai James Electronic Materials Co., for the amount of 19 million 500 thousand yuan of financial loan contract dispute case of the respondent.

Trademark similar provoke lawsuit OPPLE OPPLE was lighting claims 2 million 500 thousand

In August, the Jiaxing million OPPLE Electric Co. products with "OPPLE", OPPLE Lighting Co., 000 OPPLE v. court, asked thousands of OPPLE stop using the "OPPLE" brand, and claims 2 million 500 thousand yuan. Yesterday, the Kunming intermediate people's court heard the case.

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