The court of Appeals for the Osram-Dominant lawsuit verdict

In November 1, 2007, the United States federal appeals court (CAFC) ruling, International Trade Commission (ITC) in the OSRAM patent protection for white LED phosphor powder (claim construction) made a mistake (ITC announced in early 2006, CAFC Award) Malaysia Dominant Semiconductors company therefore found violating OSRAM patents, the patent 6066861, 6245259, 6277301, 6592780 and 6613247 U.S. patent no.. The problem is how to calculate the average size of the phosphor grains in LED, CAFC said ITC should be based on a number of methods rather than volume based methods for computing. CAFC therefore believes that OSRAM's LED in the scope of patent protection (ITC before making the ruling), Dominant standard series LED phosphor violated OSRAM patents.

Source: China Semiconductor Lighting Network