LED industry patent alliance to fight the patent war and not far from the road

Only a short while ago, a sudden patent war, let DVD industry in China suffered by the enterprise, crowning calamity, years of painstaking efforts led to China's DVD industry and unable to get up after a fall. The same experience also occurred in the photovoltaic industry we have been proud of, because the overseas experience in patent "Waterloo", the bankruptcy of Suntech in Wuxi as the representative of the leading enterprises of the delisting, once the photovoltaic industry in the domestic market hot poured cold water, let the people really taste the lack of patent bitter.

In order to avoid making the same mistakes, to create a good environment for the development of intellectual property rights, China's LED industry before, by the joint innovation center of semiconductor lighting industry in Guangdong province (hereinafter referred to as joint innovation center) LED Industry Alliance launched patent was established in Guangdong, the patent alliance will integrate the relevant valuable resources, establish the patent data platform of LED industry. Through the search of domestic and international LED industry patent data, analysis of industry technology trends, major competitors patent layout and industrial technology development focus, to provide intellectual property services for members of the alliance and domestic LED enterprises.

Experts said that despite the rapid development of the domestic LED industry, but still faces many problems. On the one hand, the future of LED industry patent war trend is spreading, and latent crisis of intellectual property pressure from the external signs of danger appearing everywhere, pose a threat to the healthy development of China's LED industry; on the other hand, many domestic colleges and universities, science and technology workers have many patents, it is difficult to realize industrialization. Through the establishment of patent alliance, we can integrate industry resources, resolve internal conflicts, improve the ability to deal with external intellectual property litigation, accelerate the upgrading of China's LED enterprises in the international market discourse.

Present situation

Expanding the scale of the industry is facing the pressure of external litigation

Data show that in 2013, the overall size of China's semiconductor lighting industry reached 291 billion 500 million yuan (excluding ancillary equipment, materials, exhibition, testing services), the upstream epitaxial chip scale reached 13 billion 800 million yuan, midstream package reached 63 billion 800 million yuan, the scale of downstream applications reached 213 billion 900 million yuan. China's semiconductor lighting industry has begun to take shape, formed a relatively complete industrial chain, a number of backbone enterprises are thriving, the key technology and the international level of the development of the industry gradually narrow the gap, demonstration and application has been in the forefront of the world, the function of the lighting market is gradually opening.

In recent years, Chinese LED enterprise with a cost advantage in the overseas market expansion, has brought some pressure to international competitors, and international companies on the vast Chinese LED market is unable to hide greeds from this point, foreign giants continue to exert pressure on domestic enterprises can get a glimpse of patent. Joint Innovation Center released LED patent trend analysis report shows that as of May this year, the global LED patent litigation is on the rise, of which overseas companies on the domestic LED companies to prosecute cases up to 20.

Hangzhou Cenda silicon semiconductor technology Co Ltd (hereinafter referred to as Cenda silicon) is a company engaged in domestic LED chip production enterprises, in the process of enterprise development has encountered the foreign enterprises in the patent "assault", let the company paid special attention to the patent. "We are in the process of growth, by virtue of technology leadership, expanding market share. Therefore, whether it is on the eve of the company or on the eve of the listing, we have encountered a variety of foreign competitors in terms of patent harassment. "Silicon Cenda chief technology officer in an East tour Chinese intellectual property news reporter said, as China's LED industry continues to expand the scale of excess capacity, relying solely on the domestic market digest has been difficult to support the needs of industrial development, and domestic enterprises to export products to overseas, it will pose a threat to foreign companies, will become the patent these foreign companies to suppress the important weapon of domestic companies.

In the joint innovation center, Minister of strategic research, LED Industry Patent Alliance Secretary General Li Wenyu seems, LED patent litigation growing behind, is undoubtedly the interests of the game LED industry. With the LED lighting into the golden period of development, the global LED large enterprises are to use the patent of this weapon grasp market dominance, the patent war also show a trend of normalization. International giants have not really use patent weapons to domestic enterprises under the ruthless hand, the main reason is waiting for the growth of Chinese LED companies. With the vigorous development of the domestic LED market, more and more foreign companies turn their attention to China, a wave of tort litigation has quietly approached us. Li Wenyu said in an interview with China Intellectual Property News reporter.

problem

Patent layout of the dominant domestic enterprises awareness

It is understood that in order to find out the global LED industry patent layout, grasp the LED enterprise patent "China Resources", joint innovation center recently completed a "LED patent trend analysis report", after Chinese patent literature search found that as of December 31, 2013, the industrial distribution and the competition pattern of the global LED industry formed in the United States, Asia in Europe, three countries and regions of the United States led a situation of tripartite confrontation (CREE), Corey and Lumileds, Japan's Nichia chemical (Nichia) and TOYOTA (Toyoda Gosei), the synthesis of the German OSRAM (OSRAM) and the monopoly of high-end product market. These 5 giants in the LED industry chain has its own advantages, Nichia and TOYOTA in the synthesis of LED industry development plays an important role in the formation of LED, a complete industrial chain, which, in the aspects of Nichia blue chip