Now, LED many industry giants belong to Japan, the United States. Under
normal circumstances, the company will be the first new technology in
their patent applications, patent applications in the LED field in
Japan, the United States is far ahead.
Looking
back on China, the the LED patent application in China reached more
than 26,000, of which nearly 50% in the midstream and downstream
packaging and application of the patent. However,
the majority of these patents are not original, mostly on the basis of
the international LED giant original patent, do some tinkering, its
patented gold content is also greatly reduced.
If
we really playing with international LED giant patent lawsuit LED
patents for inventions nearly 70% of the domestic enterprises may be
invalid. According
to the annual report or prospectus of the domestic LED enterprises data
obtained, Ruifeng power, Hongli Opto-electronic, Lehman photoelectric
dry according to optical, three optical and BDO the Runda six
enterprises LED total number of patents in the 707 invention patents
only 77. BDO Runda 44 invention patents, its sources of invention patents acquired the Korean EPIVALLEY.
Most
of the technology patent in LED Japan and South Korea and some European
and American manufacturers control, such as Cree, Philips, Osram,
Nichia and Toyoda Gosei. LED
domestic enterprises due to the poorly understood patented technology,
often a number of large international companies, the lawsuit, they have
not fared well in the face of the domestic LED fierce competition of the
case, but also the face of international technology patents disputes.
Today,
LED industry leading core strength distribution in the three regions of
Asia, the United States and Europe, and the three regions of the LED
industry, each with its own characteristics, on behalf of the
enterprise, the U.S. Cree, Lumileds, Japan's Nichia, Toyoda Gosei, Germany's Osram and Philips of the Netherlands.
Overall, several companies in the upstream LED occupies a dominant position and control the entire market big trend.
Since
the core technology of LED lighting control manufacturers such as
Nichia and Cree, and by technology patent cross-licensing, the whole
market they hold, such as Toyoda Gosei with CREE of Lumiled, Nichia,
Osram manufacturers
have had co-operation last year, and Taiwan Epistar LED technology
cross-licensing, the two sides including subsidiary can use each other
to each other III-V semiconductor light-emitting diode (LED) technology
patents, including blue InGaN (indium gallium nitride ) LED with a four-AlGaInP (AlGaInP) LED technology. OSRAM
Taiwan's Lite-On Technology, the cross-licensing of patented
technology, Osram authorized the production and sales of Lite-On
Technology Surface Mount LED (SMT LED) and a white LED conversion
technology. Osram holds patents for these technologies, Typical applications include mobile phones and car radio display backlight. Lite-On Technology provides a special manufacturing process patents granted to Osram.
Many
LED companies in the process of the development of China's LED
industry, patent disputes, but some Chinese LED enterprises completely
unaware of whether the infringement there a reason these LED companies
do not yet know the LED patent rules of the game, the lack of relevant patented technology talent. China
LED companies in mind the concept of technology patents, and take
corresponding measures in response drawbacks, they can only be foreign
manufacturers brazenly sued.
Patent, will determine the survival of the enterprise?
The face of an emerging industry, the patent war is almost impossible to avoid. In
the industry at the beginning, only of those eyes Zhuoda the
enterprise, they will layout to the core of this industry and
technology, put in a lot of R & D to the layout of the patent
themselves in after a long period of development in a proactive position. For only the most basic in the upstream areas of technology in the LED industry chain, so has the greater value. LED
industry in China started relatively late in upstream technology
patents almost a monopoly, and if they can not invest in basic
technology research and development, to find a new path to find a
breakthrough point, and then must be at a disadvantage in the
international patent war.
- Senior intellectual property attorney Huyi Desk
Many
international giants to treat China's LED business is a "pig"
mentality, wait until the production of domestic enterprises on the
scale, they will not hesitate to lift the "big stick" of intellectual
property litigation. With
the rapid development of the domestic LED lighting industry,
infringement proceedings have been getting closer and closer to us. Although
reconciliation is most of the final result of the litigation, but
reconciliation must be the hands of the respondent party brand, not some
kind of show for the patent, is very difficult reconciliation.
- Nanotechnology and Simulation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou researcher Liang Bingwen
For
new enterprises in China are not resolved independently, regardless of
how much the development of enterprise scale, there are hundreds, even
thousands of patents, this risk is there, so to avoid the risk, First,
do not easily blindly
into foreign markets, if they go into the best channels to be able to
get some of the authorization, or do some of the work of the "patent
pool", that would form a new protection, we go into the foreign markets.
But for some businesses, regardless of upstream and downstream, the seriousness of this problem, the pressure is the same.
- InvenLux Optoelectronics (China) Co., Ltd. president Yan Chunhui
The
industry patent litigation frequency since, to talk about this issue
for many years, summed up in one sentence is: the money for the research
and development of technology, the R & D, to spend money.
- Suzhou New Nanocrystalline Photoelectric Co., Ltd. General Manager Wang Huaibing
Patent predicament, for which an active fight?
We
have a technical team of experts from the global industry leader, has a
strong independent R & D and innovation ability, for example, we
are fully committed to research and development to create the next
generation of large-size sapphire growth technology and process. With core technology advantage, the only way out. On
the one hand, to ensure that the sapphire crystal size and quality of
the world's leading; On the other hand, in the system and intellectual
property strategy fully with international standards to avoid patent
disputes.
- Guizhou Haotian Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., chairman of quarter Swimming
Epistar
in mainland China will send support engineers, customers in the course
of any problems with Epistar mainland only official sales channels the
crystal ingot morning Optoelectronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. to contact to
seek help, even the engineers of the factory in Taiwan can also to the mainland to assist. If
customers need to be forward-looking, future-oriented LED application
products, Epistar R & D engineers in Taiwan to mainland China with
customers collaborative design, development, and work together to solve
the problem.
- Epistar Corporation Vice President Dr. Xie Mingxun
In Europe, the Americas and China, we have been successfully applied for several patents. With
increasingly sophisticated Chinese thirst for high-tech and protection
of intellectual property rights, and I believe that we, as well as we
have this high-tech enterprises can get better legal protection. In
addition, we are also actively initiate and cooperate in good faith and
medium-sized domestic enterprises signed a memorandum of cooperation to
jointly protect the technological advantages, and anchored to seek
common development. I
believe this is a realization Salem, optoelectronics, win-win and
common development of domestic enterprises and the cause of the
photoelectric road.
- The British Salem photoelectric Co., Ltd. Zhang Tong, vice president of
LED
industry is emerging high-tech industries, the global technology, no
company has completely reached maturity, the top technical level.
From
the LED global patent technical structure and layout of the situation,
the patent application 40% concentrated in the package, followed by the
application (26%), and extension (17%), the substrate and White patent
at least. Multinational
companies started earlier patent layout, more to master the basic
patents of LED, non-core patents and many patents are about to expire,
it can end reconciliation or signed a patent cross-licensing from
international LED patent litigation been verified.
Since
its inception, the company attaches great importance to patent
protection has been applied for a series of patents for inventions in
the substrate, epitaxy, chip preparation technology, I believe that our
continued innovation and R & D for the company involved in the
division of the global LED industry market competition to win status.
- Wuhan Di source Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., general manager across the Country
LatticePower
is the global leader in silicon-based LED product R & D and
manufacturing, has successfully achieved the production of the low-power
and high-power silicon LED product has unique advantages in lighting
applications, and patent protection, (LatticePower)
has applied for over 200 patents, patents have been laid out in China,
the United States, European Union, Japan, South Korea and other
countries and regions, covering a silicon-based LED epitaxy, chip,
package, and many other technology . On the export side, we have independent intellectual property rights, without any problem.
- Lattice Power (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd. Marketing Director Zhang Shaohua
First, raise awareness, and increase investment. Enterprises
should bring awareness of intellectual property, from the initial
growth of slowly accumulated, to invest should spend in the field of
intellectual property.
Second,
appropriate introduction of external intellectual property rights,
fight to buy some technology patents, even jointly funded by a number of
companies in order to get licensed. Again,
according to their own characteristics and advantages, select one of
the technical aspects of the industry chain patent layout, fight for
bargaining chips.
Finally, attention should be paid to the trade secrets disputes. Currently,
many of the technical staff of the LED business in China mainland are
dug up from the Taiwan region of China, the relevant team will result in
a technical infringement and disputes, the need to attract enough
attention.
-
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Software and
Integrated Circuit Promotion Center Intellectual Property Deputy
Director, You Tao
The
industry had predicted, lighting core technology lies in the case of
the European countries, the next 2 to 3 years, likely will appear the
foreign giant collective sue local small and medium-sized lighting
companies patent infringement event. While
the government moves to guide the enterprise itself should raise
awareness of self-protection, but also to "hold together" response.
If
only reasonable thoughts, but no effective response program, as will
the incidence of the development of the LED business will have a
significant contusion. LED
patent disputes cause of the process and the outcome has a comparative
understanding of the nature of their future will see the light.
Google pointed out in the patent document, through different settings to achieve different flash modes, such as activated independently of each LED flash simultaneously activated, or specifically used to remove the dark shadow. Even different brightness settings for shooting multiple copies of the same photo.