Led by the provincial department to support LED lighting standard optical component program

Before the joint research group of Guangdong provincial CPPCC science and Health Committee and Provincial Intellectual Property Office "strategic emerging industries of foreign intellectual property strategy" learned in the investigation, Guangdong province LED lighting standard optical components program has achieved initial results, but still faces some problems, suggestions to support the plan as an important content provincial cooperation, by the Ministry and the provincial government to promote the CO lead.

The upper reaches of the core technology heteronomy

LED lighting industry in Guangdong province is one of the strategic emerging industry, after several years of efforts, has become a new bright spot, Guangdong's economic growth in 2012, the province's output value of 217 billion yuan, the scale of the industry ranks first in the country, LED packaging production accounted for about 70% and 50% in the world. It can be predicted that the LED industry, as a strategic emerging industry, will play a more and more important role in the process of realizing the "three positioning and the first of the two" goals in Guangdong.

Task force found that the development of Guangdong LED industry is facing severe challenges. Although a large industrial scale, but the key technology, especially the upstream key technology of heteronomy is a serious problem. Internationally, LED industry giant OSRAM, PHILPS, Matsushita, Toshiba is at the beginning of 2010 established cooperative organization (Zhaga alliance), in the LED standard first step, light source technology has core intellectual property rights through the setting of technical barriers, control the key link of the LED lighting industry, and through the combination of threats and lawsuits the way, charge high patent licensing fees to the enterprise of our country.

More representative Alliance

The research group believes that although foreign enterprises monopolize the LED industry upstream epitaxial wafers, more in the middle reaches of the chip core technology, but the Guangdong enterprises have their own strengths, packaging and application of the downstream part of the master a large number of patents.

To play their own advantages, jointly fought with foreign giants, to promote the healthy development of the LED industry, in recent years, Guangdong proposed and implemented LED lighting standard optical components, the existing plan to integrate downstream LED industry advanced technology and patents, part of the backbone enterprise of optical component application alliance, LED lighting standard optical component products a series of research, develop product encoding principle, grasp part with independent intellectual property rights of the core patent technology and optical component detection technology, the successful launch of a series of technical specifications and results of local standards. Due to the formation of the application of optical components alliance and achieved some success, increased bargaining chips with foreign giants, in the patent application of a one-sided situation has begun to turn the table. But there are two problems: one is the enterprises in the alliance are Guangdong enterprises, there are also some large domestic backbone enterprises in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces, but did not participate, which obviously weakened in the talks as a whole power; two is to explore Guangdong enacted some standards, but local standards and if we can further up to the national standard, not only the game in favor with foreign giants, but also conducive to the healthy development of domestic enterprises.

To this end, the task force suggested that the support of the LED lighting standard optical component program as an important part of the provincial cooperation, led by the Ministry of industry and the Guangdong provincial government jointly promote the plan. Please support the Ministry and other departments, coordination of relevant domestic enterprises to join the alliance, the formation of more powerful and representative on the basis of the original Union, on behalf of Chinese LED industry collective response to foreign competitors patent barriers negotiations and dispute, strive for international discourse more "". At the same time, support has been developed and relatively mature local standards in Guangdong rose to national standards, enhance China's status and influence in the field of LED.