Veeco sued graphite tray factory SGL, China MOCVD plant shipped 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.

The LED News Research Center (LEDinside) observed that the news was a blow to local MOCVD makers in developing china. 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, China's MOCVD equipment providers, including AMEC (medium micro semiconductor), Topecsh (mid Sheng Photoelectric) and other companies gradually rise, although in 2016 the city accounted for only 11% of the total. However, after 2016 client verification, in 2017 will begin to enter the supply chain of Chinese LED chip manufacturers. However, LEDinside pointed out that after the United States this litigation incident, the follow-up of Chinese manufacturers MOCVD shipments will continue to be observed, the market is expected to have some negative impact.

And the MOCVD tray purchased by China Sheng Photoelectric has other suppliers, which will be relatively smaller by the lawsuit. 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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