The Nichia Counsel to Taiwan Declaration and the Everlight LED patent dispute

Recently, Nichia Counsel Akutagawa Katsuyuki to Taiwan, said Taiwan LED packaging factory billion light has announced Japanese courtrooms 3,503,139 for the Japanese request 1 invalid validation, particularly to clarify the validation only for the 139 patent request 1, the patent there are three other request (request 2-4) are already recognized by the Japan patent Office on the request of 1 part, the company will seek to amend the patent claims to solve, the company hasappeal to the Japanese intellectual property of the Supreme Court on June 1 Nichia believes the company will eventually will win.Akutagawa said Katsuyuki billion light to the Japanese Patent Office, Nichiren has 19 patents filed invalid expositions. Among them, including Japan's 2,927,279 patent, the patent is the YAG white LED patent, 139 patent is only an extension of the 279 patent technology patents were issued to white technology. Among them, the wide range of 279 patent applications, all will be issued to the use of either white LED applications, including the backlight, lighting has been patented in 27 countries around the world, but also by other countries, the companies filed for this patent invalid expositions, to the current so far, have not yet successful vendor challenge.Akutagawa Katsuyuki pointed out that 19 billion light brought by the patent is invalid expositions, currently has four patents to get results. Among them, 100 million light in addition to the 139 patent claim 1 for invalid validation, the other three Nichia patent is still valid, but is estimated that another 15 will be the fastest in the first three pre-season validation results, then it will be seen that the Nichia patent on the full layout and strong competitiveness.