Nichia AOT sued Taiwan to stop selling white LED

Nichia chemical industries with light emitting diode (LED) creative rights violated on the grounds, decided to draw the Taiwan Hsinchu district court to make temporary punishment, ordered the Taiwan advanced development company (Advanced Optoelectronic Technology, a AOT) to stop the infringement. Involved in the AOT company LED object products include models for "AOT-4008S-W312-Z" and "AOT-SHWU-Z-H" 2 varieties. Both are surface packaged white LED, mainly used for mobile phone LCD backlight light source. According to Nichia said, these 2 products against the company in Taiwan has a creative power (Taiwan registration Article No. 089036).

As the Nichia LED industry giants, since 2003 has in Taiwan and South Korea and other manufacturers of white LED LED exercise of intellectual property rights. The temporary disposition for the continuation of Nichia chemical industries of Asian manufacturers countermeasures. Once the company finds that there is infringement of intellectual property rights, but also requires the sale of equipment equipped with LED U.S. manufacturers and distributors do not sell related products, until the actual cessation of sales. Not long ago, in November 10, 2005, Nichia chemical industries has signed a production agreement with the United States MMP company. The latter had been in production with Taiwan or China, LED production equipment, and Nichia chemical industries believe that these LED against the United States Patent Nichia chemical industries. In another development, the MMP product of LED is not the application for provisional disposition of AOT products.