LED industry 15 patent dispute event point

Recently, the foundation of the United States Boston University sued the upstream LED crystal grain factory involving infringement of electricity, the United States Court jury also initially ruled that claims $9 million 300 thousand (about NT $290 million). Patent disputes like this for the LED industry, is not new, from the chip to the package to the application, patent war has been accompanied by the development of the industry as a whole. Nearly three years since the N patent dispute occurred. Look at the main patent disputes.

CREE to report on the patent infringement

In January, CREE (CREEInc.) respectively 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 infringement package with LED LED chip, lighting related design and operation of the company's 8 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.

High on AOC for EP1352431B1 patent litigation

TridonicAtco Jennersdorf Co. Ltd., together with Japan's TOYOTA Corporation, Germany LeuchtstoffwerkBreitungen GmbH synthesis and Litec GbR composed of B.O.S.E. alliance, B.O.S.E. alliance with the basic patent blue LED and yellow silicate phosphor white light generation technology. The B.O.S.E. Alliance under the authority of the sharp high Jennersdorf limited in March 2015 on the B.O.S.E. EP1352431 alliance held that infringement of patent B1 AOC International B.V. (Europe) and AOC International (Europe) GmbH filed a patent infringement lawsuit.

OSRAM accused ASUS of infringing its white LED patent

In May, OSRAM announced that it won 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.

In the proceedings, ASUS did not refute the issue of patent infringement. ASUS computer used by the east of the LED photoelectric manufacturing. East Germany in the German Federal Patent Court filed OSRAM patent (DE 19655185) invalid lawsuit, then, ASUS filed a lawsuit to the Dusseldorf district court, but was dismissed. Dusseldorf district court believes that OSRAM patent (DE 19655185) is unlikely to be revoked. As for the patent invalid lawsuit filed by the East, the German Federal Patent Court has not made a final ruling.

Due to the failure to reach a settlement with ASUS and East, OSRAM has also filed in the Dusseldorf district court to ASUS three other patent infringement litigation.

The United States accused CREE company violated its Fett electric LED patent

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.

Fett electric company president Aaron Feit said: "we fully support the market competition, but the competition of patent infringement behavior will not be tolerated. Our company is building a portfolio of patents to ensure our market position. Accusing CREE of infringing just putting our strategy into action. "

Subsequently, Fett electric company requested the court injunction to stop CREE, continue to sell 4FLOW LED bulb, while seeking damages.

GE lighting sued LSG violation of its LED patent court rejected the United States

In August, 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 and Taiwan Everlight patent grudge"

Nichia and Taiwan Everlight "grudge" long-standing, Everlight said, "Nichia began and launched a series of patent war of the company since 2006". The previous "entanglement" is no longer in details, several recent US intercept plot, we can glimpse see the leopard spots.

Billion light on 9 May 2011, the Japanese Patent Office filed a mistrial request of Nichia JP4530094 patent. In 2014 May, billion light received the verdict in favor of the Japan Patent Office notice, and that the Nichia patent is invalid, then the media interpreted as "billion light victory". However, Nichia immediately responded that the judgment day on.