Together with its affiliate Seoul Viosys Co Ltd, South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against consumer electronics ...
Nitride Semiconductor Co Ltd of Tokushima, Japan has filed a patent infringement lawsuit with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota against Digi-Key Corp (trading as Digi-Key Electronics), which sells ultraviolet ...
On 31 March, South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd (SSC) filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Germany in the District Court of Düsseldorf against global electronic component distributor Mouser Electronics Inc asserting ...
Tags: Semiconductor, LEDs
South Korean UV LED and blue LED chip maker Seoul Viosys Co Ltd has filed a lawsuit with the Federal District Court of Southern New York accusing P3 International (a US-based manufacturer of home electronics products that sells its products ...
Tags: UV LEDs, Seoul Viosys, Electronic Technology
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has agreed to license patents covering the PI-LED technology of Lumitech GmbH of Jennersdorf, Austria, which manufactures components for human-centric lighting. PI-LED technology facilitates tuning ...
Tags: Seoul Semiconductor, LEDs
LED package manufacturer Everlight and Japan’s largest LED manufacturer Nichia initiated patent wars in Japan, Taiwan, Germany, U.S. and other countries for the past decade, reported Chinese-language magazine Money Weekly. Nichia is ...
Tags: LED Industry, LED patents, LED lighting
Recent patent disputes between Japanese LED manufacturer Nichia and Taiwanese counterpart Everlight has raged on, with new disputes every now and then. Will the two sides ever reach a settlement? And how will these patent issues affect the ...
Tags: LED Patent, Nichia, Everlight
Cree and Epistar announced on Aug. 4, 2015, the two companies signed a global LED patent cross license agreement. The move signals large LED manufacturers strategy of maintaining market positions through patent advantages, said LEDinside ...
Tags: CREE, LED lighting, LED patent
Dwindling profits in the LED package market has made market competitions far more ferocious, and has even affected phosphor, a key LED material. Whether it is the highly mature yellow powder or the maturing green and red phosphor, ...
Tags: Bree Optronics, LED phosphor, Chinese Market
Globalized competition is inevitable in the LED industry with an increasing number of overseas LED companies entering Chinese market and vice versa. Chinese LED companies acquire renowned international manufacturers, fewer companies ...
In general, LED Manufacturers performed quite well over the past eight months in 2015. But competition among LED manufacturers intensified through price wars, patent disputes and fighting over distribution channel were overwhelming. A ...
In December 2014, the Chinese government announced it would no longer be encouraging local governments to issue financial subsidies to LED manufacturers. The announcement which could have brought a sigh of relief to foreign competitors, had ...
Tags: LED Subsidies, LED industry
Cree and Epistar have signed a worldwide patent cross-license agreement for LED chips to further advance the growth of the LED lighting and LED bulb markets. Cree and Epistar both hold broad and substantial LED chip patent portfolios that ...
Tags: LED chip, LED lighting
Feit Electric Company Inc of Pico Rivera, CA, USA has filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina alleging that the 4Flow line of LED light bulbs of LED maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA ...
Tags: Cree, LED light, bulbs, Feit Electric
Taiwanese LED maker Everlight Electronics Co Ltd says that, on 22 April, the jury before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan found that all asserted claims of the white LED patents of Japan's Nichia Corp are invalid ...
Tags: LED Patents, Everlight