LED patent litigation industry believes little impact

Columbia University professor emeritus Lott Hill (GertrudeNeumarkRothschild) to start a new wave of LED patent infringement litigation, domestic manufacturers including Ding Yuan (2426), (3339) Taigu, Qili, new Xiamen, three photoelectric, etc. in the new wave of list. Rose Hill in 2005, TOYOTA started to synthesis, Nichia, CREE and other international LED manufacturers filed a patent lawsuit, LED caused uproar.

Rose Hill before the day of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is proposed according to the requirement, part of Taiwan and the mainland manufacturers launch 337LED infringement investigation. In general, if ITC is convicted of infringement of the relevant patent, the product will not enter the U.S. market within the period of the patent.

Ding Yuan, director of Qiu Meiling said that a few days ago has received the relevant notification, but still understand the situation, the current inconvenience to do more comments. Taigu spokesman Liu Sanbao pointed out that Taigu have confidence in the product is not involved in the infringement. In addition, Taigu products exported to mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea, and not sold in the United States, have little effect. LED business privately pointed out that the global LED factory almost was charged Rose Hill, over the past few years, Rose Hill launched patent litigation, multi industry to seek reconciliation, such as TOYOTA and Lott Hill also reported the synthesis of reconciliation, domestic manufacturers billion light also choose reconciliation, patent authorization.

According to the understanding of the LED industry, Rose Hill proposed one-time authorization fee is not low, or receive an annual turnover of 3% to 5% of the license fee, because many manufacturers in the past and Rose Hill settlement, which is probably the reason why she's action again this year.

Recently filed a second wave of infringement list, the scale of revenue compared to the previous wave of small list. Ding Yuan 2 billion 830 million yuan in revenue last year, Taigu is less than 1 billion yuan; 1 billion 170 million yuan for the new. The industry believes that the Rose Hill before the wave lock LED manufacturers, this will spearhead smaller vendors. Rose Hill to the infringement investigation last year, the list of industry including Sony, Motorola, Hitachi, domestic manufacturers billion light, Wang Qi, Guang Lei, Wei Ke, Lite optoelectronics, electronic and new this morning.

According to the Rose Hill said, she is 198, and 199 in the 1970s at the Columbia University as professor of Engineering LED related patents.