Investment in LED emerging industries can not be ignored intellectual property risk

LED industry entered into the climax

About 6 years ago especially Yuxian resolutely poured money into the LED industry, now also for her regret, "had invested in real estate, now can not! "

As of now, especially Yuxian served as chairman of the Fujian Hongbo Group has in its subsidiary Hongbo photoelectric investment 260 million yuan, LED light source for lighting and display applications, development and production.

This is the Hongbo Group started printing, is currently one of the largest commercial paper printing enterprises. When the company chose LED as the focus of the new strategic investment, in the exploratory stage, the cost is huge, was dubbed the first floor of the printed banknotes, the two floor to burn money". After a few years of accumulation of various series of LED lighting deep by IKEA, Carrefour and other international buyers to purchase, has become the focus of energy-saving products recommended by the government. This is even more firm Yu Yu further expand the confidence of the LED industry. "We are doing a now covers an area of 134 thousand square meters, plans a total investment of 560 million yuan in Fujian Hongbo photoelectric park planning, is expected to completed in 2015. Yu Yu said.

During the interview in Fujian, the reporter interviewed the LED business owners, switch to turn, not only Yu Xian xian. Visible LED broad market prospects for the huge attraction of capital.

Harmonious photoelectric technology (Quanzhou) Co., Ltd. is a LED packaging and application products of the enterprise, its boss Cai Xu is Japanese clothing business background, has done 20 years in the clothing business in 2007 Cai Xuri decided to invest in LED, was spotted in LED market. Cai Xuri said: I did a lot of pre research, and finally decided to invest in LED, energy saving and environmental protection is a major trend. After making the decision, I participated in the junior high school students, many of our students are their own factories, I asked a circle, no one to do so high-tech. Cai Xuri is expected that within 5 years LED application market will spread.

Cai Xuri judgment on the market, but also in the relevant industry experts who have been verified. It is expected that in 2015 China's LED lighting output value will reach 500 billion yuan, accounting for more than 30% of the general lighting market.

In Fujian, the capital of Fujian on many opportunities for the development of LED industry. As of the end of 2010, Fujian LED enterprises have more than 250, mainly in Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and other places, regional industrial agglomeration effect has emerged. Among them, Xiamen is the country's largest LED industry base, the first batch of 4 semiconductor lighting engineering industrialization base, the largest LED epitaxial wafer, chip production base. 2010 Fujian LED industry output value of 13 billion yuan, an increase of 45% over the same period last year.

Intellectual property rights challenge industry nerve

In fact, not only China's LED industry is on the eve of the great popularity, the global LED industry is also in the rising range of popularity. But mention exports, the reporter interviewed most LED companies are worried.

Vice president, Chinese Electronic Enterprise Association in Fujian Province Electronic Information Group Chairman Liu Jieming told reporters that the LED industry chain from top to bottom as substrate, epitaxial wafer, chip, package, and finally to the application, technical content from high to low. At present in the field of LED lighting, the upper reaches of the core technology in Japan, the United States CREE master Nichia, OSRAM of Germany and Europe and developed countries several giant hands, downstream products well-known brands, OSRAM, PHILPS also lies in the hands of Matsushita and other international giants, they are the base of intellectual property monopoly.

LED chip with high technical content, for example, in 2010 the Japanese LED chip sales of about $3 billion 300 million, accounting for 45% of the global market. In contrast, China's epitaxial wafer and chip production in 2010 totaled about 4 billion yuan, of which the localization rate is less than 50%, less than the global market share of 4%. In the case of a company, a German OSRAM holding approximately 8000 patents, and each stage in the LED industry chain has its own core technology patents.

Xiamen Sanan optoelectronics is the largest of a LED chip manufacturer, ranked fourth in Asia, a number of technology with independent intellectual property rights, to fill the domestic blank. So far, three optical has applied for 131 patents, of which domestic invention patent 98, has authorized 33, and applied for international patents 8 (including 1 authorized). As the upstream of LED technology in China's leading enterprises, Sanan optoelectronics on intellectual property is still not slack. Three special assistant photoelectric chairman Ke Yongrui told reporters, because the semiconductor technology has several years history in the world, many of the original invention, the patent expires, cannot bypass. Between the international giants through patent licensing, cross licensing, and the number of our intellectual property is still very limited, it is difficult to qualify for their circle. In addition to our R & D, is bigger capacity, bigger market, which is also accompanied by intellectual property pressures and increased risk. "

Ke Yongrui's fears are well founded. Some analysts believe that the international giants is not on a wide range of Chinese LED enterprise "cut", because China production capacity is not so great as to their "knife" scale. Therefore, more like an optoelectronic enterprises, the need to be cautious. According to the information management department of Sanan Optoelectronics Technology Center Manager Shao Xiaojuan introduction, now the construction of Sanan optoelectronics nearly 170 thousand patent information and patent database, updated weekly, so that the whole industry has a comprehensive and timely understanding of the status of patent.

Fujian Putian Wanban Optoelectronics Technology Co.