LED Enterprises: technology and patents, one can not be less"

For LED Lighting Companies in China, the patent is like a time bomb, accidentally brought a disastrous blow to the enterprise. With the passage of time and the development of the market, the global LED patent barriers slowly appeared loose, on the one hand is the early patent LED technology has been or is about to reach the protection period. On the other hand, it is China's LED Lighting Companies in technology research and development and patent strategy, has come to the fore.

Patent strategy for technology development escort

Once, in Shenzhen after the collapse of billion billion light, lighting general manager Wu Zhengzhe micro-blog wrote: "today, May 26. Thursday, July 4th. Yesterday there were 2 LED bankruptcy, Shenzhen is a "billion light" bankruptcy, the copycat billion light from a founder thought of crooked ways, bankruptcy well, the province billion light clean it something good. Two is Zhongshan male remember to rest. Once again, no bottom line is not the future of the right. Those who love the dealer price warning, perhaps the next is you. Is appropriate: sustainable; not appropriate: cheap". Two from the collapse of the industry reflects the impetuous, lack of innovation in miniature. This is the performance of the industry in the environment is a serious homogenization of products, enterprises face customers, loss of bargaining power, can only grab orders through low-cost competition.

Patent strategy is a tool to ensure that enterprises can gain competitive advantage. Early in the patent has been put into the preparation and the enterprise, has now experienced the patent for the protection of enterprises and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.

The best strategy patent strategy development planning leading enterprises, before the enterprise technology project, started the project patent search, found patent barriers, to circumvent the patent trap, avoid products using the patent rights of others, so as to draw direction through the patent technology research and development planning regulations.

Based on the fundamental Chinese LED enterprise patent war

China has LED patents, in the quantity can be among the world's top 5, after the number of patent China mainland is located in the United States and Japan, Germany, Taiwan and China roughly equivalent, which is a large proportion of the utility model patent. More than 70% of the world's LED application products processing and manufacturing are completed in China, which is the LED patent war, China has the main weight.

Prior to 2006, China's LED invention patent applicants are mainly composed of national 863 projects and other units and units. After 2006, the number of patent applications filed by LED companies as a result of the LED invention patent applicants increased rapidly. With the development of the market, the technical strength and patent protection consciousness of Chinese LED enterprises have been strengthened obviously, and the way of increasing the wealth and avoiding the risk by the patent application is gradually mastered.

According to relevant information, the current global LED technology and patents in the field, more than half of the control of large international companies. Japan Nichia, TOYOTA, CREE, PHILPS Europe synthetic America Europe, OSRAM and other foreign companies have a large number of patents, almost the whole industry chain covering raw materials, equipment, packaging and application. In contrast, China's LED industry patent applications mainly focus on the field of downstream industries, including middle package, downstream applications link patent applications accounted for more than 60% of the total application, mainly to the application for a patent for utility model and design patents, invention patent applications accounted for relatively low. Especially in the key to the long-term development of the industry, the key technology is still lack of core patents. Obviously, the monopoly of foreign industry giants, seriously hindered the development of China's LED industry.

The intellectual property experts pointed out that the adjustment strategy to China LED enterprises, can be purchased through licensing, but must have their own brand; at the same time, the domestic enterprises to improve their own strength, cultivate their own patent talents based on scientific research institutes, colleges and universities, take the road of independent innovation, to break through the foreign patent barriers. Only focus on research and development, with independent intellectual property rights, improve the quality of products, in order to make the LED industry in China to get rid of the embarrassment of heteronomy.