Veeco sued SGL MOCVD China graphite tray factory, factory shipments or affected

MOCVD LED machine is the most important industry of production equipment, and the global market share of the highest U.S. manufacturer Veeco in April 2017 sued the graphite tray manufacturer SGL infringement, claiming the company infringed four patents owned by Veeco (US6506252B2, US6685774B2, US6726769B2 and USD690671S1, the patent declared covers the main structure and design of comprehensive protection tray the MOCVD device, Veeco) asked SGL to stop the sale of infringing the tray, and compensate for the losses.

Dramexchange consulting LED Research Center (LEDinside) observation, the news, is a blow to the ongoing development of the MOCVD China local manufacturers. The reason is that Chinese MOCVD equipment factory, some of the design is the use of Veeco and similar design, so the choice of the tray is similar, when the tray supplier Veeco manufacturers to buy these charges, the joint will affect these manufacturers of equipment production scheduling, because there is no tray can be used, the equipment is delay in delivery, even temporarily can not be shipped to LED epitaxial plant.

Regardless of how could Veeco accused SGL of company litigation results, light is present on the market, SGL is temporarily unable to supply shipments to China MOCVD equipment factory, the product development cycle in the fiercely competitive LED industry, time is stuck is not a small loss, because manufacturers capacity layout may not etc. order, others will fall.

According to LEDinside data, Chinese MOCVD equipment manufacturers including AMEC (micro semiconductor), Topecsh (Johnson Optoelectronics) and other companies gradually rise, although the total only 11% market share in 2016. But after 2016 in the client after verification, 2017 will begin to enter the China LED chip manufacturers in the supply chain. However, LEDinside pointed out that after this US action events, subsequent China vendor MOCVD shipments will need to continue to observe, the market may be expected to have some negative effect.

The tray Sheng Photoelectric MOCVD equipment purchased from other suppliers, affected by this action will be relatively smaller. German AIXTRON, American Veeco, Japanese solar acid manufacturers, their technology, the suitable vendors and process options, in the global adjustment of LED production capacity layout, the future through patent litigation to exclude potential future opponents, will be one of the heavy weapons to manufacturers. (text: Ivan Lin/LEDinside)

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