Baotuan to cope with the LED giant siege to avoid heavy R & D cottage"

With the continuous progress of promoting global LED technology and related policies, LED industry has become to be the next gold mine". As an important production and manufacturing base of the global LED industry, the current trend, the Chinese LED companies how to seize the initiative in the global market competition, has become a major problem faced by enterprises.

At the same time, the development of the market is becoming more and more vigorous. At the same time, the problems of the LED industry in the aspects of technology, patent, standard, application field and so on are becoming more and more obvious. Global semiconductor patent disputes continue, the trend has begun to dispute the development of China's mainland, and continue to increase. Patent encirclement has become the largest overseas market of China's LED enterprises to export "stumbling block". On the other hand, the international lighting giant has been relying on core patents, the Chinese market beachhead. Although China's LED industry in terms of output and price advantage, but technically speaking, it is difficult to keep pace with international brands. Foreign brands army, with patent weight, LED industry and photovoltaic industry is likely to repeat the mistakes. The face of domestic and foreign patents, China's LED enterprises how to break through?

Baotuan cope with the LED giant siege to avoid patent research and development"

Proactive layout cooperation to avoid patent conflict

At present, LED lighting has long been the core technology of PHILPS, OSRAM, TOYOTA, CREE, Nichia chemical synthesis of the five international giants have. The 5 large manufacturers for almost covers raw materials, automatic soldering machine equipment, packaging and application, the whole industry chain of patents, and through the formation of patent cross licensing monopoly pressure on domestic LED manufacturers. Once stepped on mine area, patent wars will be imminent.

In China LED industry striding development at the same time, more and more LED companies also saw the patent protection of interests, take precautions, and actively seek opportunities for cooperation with international companies, signed a patent cooperation agreement way to circumvent the patent conflict.

2012 Taiwan first chip manufacturer canyuan photoelectricity and TOYOTA announced the synthesis of patent cross licensing, this also let shares canyuan photoelectric domestic LED enterprise three big benefit, the company is expected to solve the bottleneck problem of patent currently faced by domestic enterprises, for the overseas market development obstacles.

In recent years, the layout of the crystal in the patent has changed. Three years ago in the layout of the crystal electric patent infringement of the patent is to avoid the passive, but in recent years through the development of ACLED crystal electric and HVLED core technology patents, and other international manufacturers of cross licensing opportunities, but also let the crystal electric patent layout more complete. It is reported that the current crystal has been synthesized with TOYOTA patent cross licensing.

Chongqing Silian optoelectronic official said in an interview before the people, in order to cope with the patent of the storm, the enterprise can put forward countermeasures from two aspects: one is to realize the change of patent patent, patent cross licensing, mutual use. Currently, the hands of the four photoelectric holds 72 patents, mostly in the layout, application. If foreign companies in the Chinese market to downstream development, at least four photoelectric can also form a number of patent barriers for cross licensing as a bargaining chip". Two is staring at the forefront of the international LED industry technology, product development, early in China Patent layout. "At present, we are making efforts in these two areas. The responsible person.

Cooperation and win-win cooperation to cope with the siege encirclement"

As an intangible asset, the patent is particularly important for the development of overseas markets. Nowadays, patents have become a weapon of war among the enterprises in different industries. Especially for export-oriented SMEs, one or more key LED patent technology may determine the fate of the entire enterprise life and death. Insiders predict that the next 2 to 3 years, will probably appear foreign giants collective events accused of patent infringement of local small and medium-sized enterprises should improve the lighting business, self-protection awareness, should take "Baotuan" coping style, through the establishment of alliance or organization, investigation, collection, tracking and analysis of the world LED the establishment of LED technology and patents, patent database, reference application in a timely manner to the members of the League to research and development of new products, timely retrieval updates, to establish an early warning mechanism to avoid infringe upon the patent alliance.

Relevant industry believes that this is the right time to establish LED patent alliance. The foreign core patents have expired, in accordance with the provisions of the patent law, patent protection period is 20 years, the appearance of the patent protection period is 10 years, a number of patents related to LED began to apply at the beginning of 1990s, has now been due or to become due. These patents expire, will bring huge opportunities for the development of domestic LED companies. In addition, the current foreign patent barriers warming, there are considerable risks. The domestic LED enterprises through alliances, strengthen strategic research, the patent pool is bigger, the number of patents together, cross licensing, mutual cooperation, and ultimately the formation of other ways to deal with the threat of international LED giants.

Foshan Lighting Association President Wu Yulin said, when the LED core technology in Europe and other countries in the hands of the enterprise, through the establishment of patent alliance, strengthen the research of patent strategy, one can achieve a reasonable layout of patent infringement defense purposes; on the other hand, the establishment of the league, as the start of regional industrial resources LED the strategy of integration, the domestic LED industry or will break the bottle