LED patent or will dominate the future LED lighting

LED lighting this attractive "big cake" has attracted many enterprises to enter the market, between traditional enterprises and new enterprises in the fierce competition. As the world's top five LED companies continue to expand the scope of patents, fierce competition led to inevitable patent war. These patents will become the bottleneck of the development of small and medium-sized LED companies.

Currently, the European lighting giant PHILPS and OSRAM has issued a patent license LED technology. PHILPS said it would not have to pay royalties if the customer purchased the LED light source within the scope of the PHILPS patent license. OSRAM and PHILPS have also reached an agreement to obtain a patent license from the latter. This means that OSRAM customers can enjoy the right to pay royalties.

Cree has also reached an agreement with OSRAM on the use of LED patents. The patent technology involved in the agreement, such as blue chip LED, white LED, as well as fluorescent powder, packaging, LED bulbs, lighting appliances, LED lighting control systems and other projects. Cree and OSRAM LED patent agreement with Nichia headquartered in Japan and TOYOTA reach.

According to industry sources, inter enterprise patent cross mutual agreement will help accelerate the development of LED technology in the application field and further reduce the risk of infringement of other companies patent. PHILPS, OSRAM, Cree and TOYOTA company, Nichia chemical synthesis is one of the world's top five enterprises LED. These companies use patented technology to create their own competitive advantage. But with the enlargement of the application of LED, the old patent can not resist after LED enterprise. Therefore, the cooperation between these companies is inevitable.

However, the five giants are still facing challenges such as Samsung and LG companies. OSRAM first filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung LED. Samsung and LG are working together to counter the lawsuit against OSRAM, requiring any car equipped with OSRAM LED products can not be sold in China and South korea.

Taiwan LED packaging manufacturers billion light recently won the Nichia patent invalid litigation.

With the diversification of the development of LED lighting, the largest number of patents will eventually laugh to the end.