Hukouduoshi LED packaging silicone belonging to the patent war triggered

Science and technology daily news once, more than 75% of the market share occupied by two multinational companies. Until 2014, the domestic market for the first time exceeded the size of LED packaging imported products.

Although it is a big manufacturing country, but in a number of sophisticated products in the field, the Chinese market is still the world of multinational companies. Chinese enterprises in the field of innovation and development in order to achieve the rise, it is bound to touch the interests of the original pattern, will face challenges.

Beijing was founded in Zhongguancun, now is a well-known enterprise in LED packaging industry silicone enika Corporation, is a multinational company experience and face patent litigation initiated. The general manager of the company Ge Shili enika recently interviewed by reporters, describes this experience and share the inspiration.

Innovation boost rise

2005 was established at the beginning of the "localization" pilot polymer strategic positioning enika, launched in 2008 LED packaging silicone R & D, time is completely dependent on imports of high-end high refractive silicone as the starting point.

"Has been able to high-end market as a starting point, mainly from a silicone, epoxy resin and other polymer materials have a wealth of experience in R & D team. "Enika general manager Ge Shili said in an interview with reporters, mainly from the R & D team Chinese academy, enterprises since its inception has been to the research and development center, more than 30% specialized personnel engaged in research and development.

LED packaging is the key application material of LED devices, which plays a decisive role in the overall performance of the device. Due to the technical threshold is high, to 2010, high-end LED high refractive package silicone industry for more than 75% market share by Dow Corning, two multinational enterprises occupy the shinetsu.

Strong innovation ability and excellent performance index based on enika products quickly open up the situation had been a monopoly of transnational corporations on the market: domestic listed companies engaged in packaging has gradually become enika customers, a number of internationally renowned enterprises also take the initiative to contact enika and reached cooperation intention.

The market was gradually accepted after enika product market is growing so fast, the performance of the company every year to double the rate of growth. With the great advantage of the price and the performance is consistent with the imported products, the import market share continues to lose. Relevant data show that in 2014 the domestic market for the first time exceeded the size of the LED packaging imported products.

A patent war on the outcome of innovation

"Hukouduoshi" is not in the rise of the Everything is going smoothly. enika, at the same time, a baptism gradually approaching. In April 2014, the Dow Corning enika company to court, claims enika company sales in the market of phenyl containing high refractive silicone for patent infringement. A patent war involving innovation research and development results officially opened the curtain.

Although things have been in the past few months, but to talk about the experience of this section, the words are still full of emotion. Ge Shili said, in the product gradually occupy the market, he felt vaguely there will be a war, but when challenged, he was surprised: competitors without prior communication, there is no lawyer's letter, sent directly to the court's indictment.

After many years of accumulation of multinational companies are familiar with patent play, in the declaration of core technology patents, but also around the core of the patent to build a very wide range of patent protection. "Handling the patent lawsuit enika deputy general manager Wang Hua told reporters, small start-up companies are not careful it is easy to step in the" mine ", in a patent lawsuit can not extricate themselves.

Although in the initial research project, enika legal officer had retrieve all domestic and foreign technology patents and related project. But when the challenge came, he was still a little nervous. He asked the attorney general to work with the patent attorney to retrieve all the patents until they said, "OK, no problem, we have no infringement! "Ge Shili really down.

Indeed, after 8 months of investigation and trial, in May 18, 2015, the State Intellectual Property Office, the Patent Reexamination Board issued a formal announcement, Dow Corning Corporation involved in the patent patent all invalid, together with the national brand facing patent disputes of multinational companies, and ultimately to Kang Mei in favor of the curtain call.

Patent, the "double-edged sword" in business competition"

Although the final enika company successfully reverse the passive situation, not only for multinational companies to account for cheap, but also an occasion to rival a "heavy", and therefore enika significantly improve the visibility of the industry. But in the industry view, this experience has also sounded the alarm for China's innovative enterprises.

Some intellectual property lawyer said in an interview with reporters, innovative enterprises China to go with these decades or even centuries of accumulated international giants contest, light is the product well enough, but also to learn how to protect themselves.

The patent dispute in the LED industry is nothing new, from the chip to the package to the material, patent war has been accompanied by the development of the industry as a whole. Due to the awareness, experience, financial strength, staffing and international giants, there is still a huge gap between domestic enterprises, patent game has always been manipulated by the international giants.

"The lesson for new entrants to the international market Chinese company is not a bad thing, it makes enterprises realize that past patent applications will reveal the concept of core technology secrets is a deviation. "Ge Shili admitted that they also believe that the patent is easy to cause the leakage of technological secrets, so often