Seoul Semiconductor filed an LED patent infringement warning

LED field of patent war or will start! Recently, the news, South Korea LED Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Seoul Semiconductor) since September 2016, to lighting, television and other manufacturers as the object, for the global 29 companies issued a patent infringement warning. The 29 companies, including Skyworth and other 15 Chinese mainland enterprises, AOT Rongchuang company (hereinafter referred to Rong Chong) and other four Chinese enterprises in Taiwan and Feit and many other European and American enterprises.

This news came out, immediately in the semiconductor industry triggered a hot debate. Some experts believe that the Seoul Semiconductor for many Chinese LED companies filed a warning of infringement, on the one hand that China's semiconductor manufacturing and consumer market development prospects, Seoul Semiconductor hopes to patent litigation, access to substantial patent licensing fees; the other hand, in recent years China's LED business technology research and development, patent protection more attention, Seoul Semiconductor intended to curb competitors through patent litigation, to seize market share.

It is understood that Seoul Semiconductor is a professional semiconductor manufacturing company in South Korea, the world's top LED industry, currently has more than 10,000 patents in the field of semiconductor, its independent research and development of non-packaged LED, multi-structure chip, DC AC can drive Acrich, UV sterilization and other four innovative technologies, leading the global LED field development. Since 2003 to win the patent infringement of China's Taiwan Rong Chong, Seoul Semiconductor have been in the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea and other places to launch more than 50 patent war, and have ended in succession.