White LED is about to enter the era of patent infighting

LED veteran change strategy with whirlpool out of patent term looming, these patented key technology of LED industry is also aware of this, if you continue to take action strategies, which is detrimental to the patent protection umbrella increasingly weak. Because in the existing market, facing the fierce offensive in Taiwan and South Korea industry, including Nichia, OSRAM and so on in the traditional industry who insist on sticking, will face an even bigger challenge, also because of complicated and lengthy litigation procedures, indirectly weakens the power of new technology development.

So the technology in the fierce competitive environment, the main LED in Europe and the United States and Japan industry changed the market strategy, including TOYOTA Cree, synthesis, Nichia, PHILPS, OSRAM and other industry to actively take each other to avoid the problem of patent authorization. Such changes were unimaginable 45 years ago. Because as of 2003 before the industry boom of patent infringement litigation in order to maintain their position, but also because of this, the other manufacturers, including LED packaging industry, LED industry also no reason was involved in litigation flood tide. It can be found from the beginning of 2002 to 2003, the impressiveness of lawsuits, gradually to exchange authorization reconciliation.

The LED industry jumped from the action of vortex, if from the development point of view as benign, enlarge the scope of authorization, mutual trust is the actual production, to authorize the right to receive gold, authorized OEM business model development. For example, OSRAM has a "right to receive gold, authorization, billion light Lite on, Wang Qi, and Nichia, TOYOTA synthetic EPISTAR authorized OEM, AVAGO, OSRAM authorized Hongqi production, Nichia, Hitachi authorized opto foundry production etc.. Let LED application industry can get a lower price and better quality of LED, but also allows the LED industry to focus on the development of the next generation of LED key technologies, in order to consolidate the existing market opportunities and benefits.

Another wave of litigation and the forthcoming so whirlpool Europe and Japan and other traditional LED manufacturers, and has begun to end production technology and have the ability of Asia emerging consultation commissioned production, while in the patent right, the new situation of traditional LED manufacturers also appeared with a strong manufacturing industry has the cooperation. Because in the face of patent protection will soon disappear, and because it takes a huge human capital gain to win lawsuit damages, not aligned with these new entrants, collect licensing fees in the BRICs area, not only greatly enhance the training effectiveness, and even expand in emerging markets. When such a change for the emerging LED production, LED application providers, is also a good news, because for the emerging LED industry, so can improve the quality of the products and to expand new sales channels, and applications in the LED industry, in addition to avoid patent disputes, but also can get a lower cost, high quality LED.

If it continues to develop, believe the overall changes not only this, further brought is that these new LED manufacturers will close with the distance from the traditional LED technology companies, as well as in the one-way authorized more with cross licensing, production opportunities will be low to the Taiwan, and these changes, it is traditional LED manufacturers are willing to see. On the other hand, these emerging LED industry, it is bound to continue to develop new technologies to expand the patent umbrella, the impact is that another wave of emerging LED industry driven litigation whirlpool, is about to start. The number of households in the future cross licensing, I believe it is not only the immediate number of immediate, but will expand to the big more than and 10, when the complexity than today, there will be no less than.

In order to avoid the waste of resources and litigation status, authorized by the patent, basically may be a good starting point, but on the other hand, because of the complicated industrial base, which will be the next wave of tit for tat fuse, how can meet the maximum benefit, will test the traditional intelligence LED plant. In summer