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News-Spot | Products, Materials + Tools | Dec 14, 2011
NGK Introduces New Wafer Products for Electronic Devices at SEMICON Japan
NGK Insulators, Ltd. (President: Taro Kato; Headquarters: Nagoya, Japan) has developed new wafer products for electronic device applications, such as ultra high brightness (UHB) LEDs and smartphones. The Company will exhibit samples of these wafers for the first time at SEMICON Japan 2011, which will be held December 7 through 9 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 07, 2011
Acrich 2 AC / Mains LED Light Sources Now Available from YEG Opto
Acrich 2 AC / Mains LED Light Sources Now Available from YEG Opto The release of the Acrich 2 from Seoul Semiconductor, provides designers with a convenient way to design in LEDs. 'Acrich 2' makes it possible to produce extended life, highly efficient LED light sources. Acrich2 enables higher lamp efficiency and lamp lumen maintenance levels than previous designs. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 07, 2011
Bridgelux Announces Commercial Availability of Latest Generation Array LEDs
Bridgelux Announces Commercial Availability of Latest Generation Array LEDs Bridgelux Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, today announced commercial availability of its latest generation of industry-leading LS, ES, and award-winning RS product families, delivering an increase in efficacy of up to 30% and a reduction of up to 30% in cost per lumen compared to previous product generations. Featuring the largest portfolio of LED arrays in the lighting industry, Bridgelux offers products for lighting applications ranging from the light output equivalent of a 20-Watt decorative lamp to that of a 300-Watt high intensity discharge (HID) city streetlight. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Dec 07, 2011
Highly Efficient XLamp ® XP-G LED Now Available from MSC
Highly Efficient XLamp ® XP-G LED Now Available from MSC The three latest models of XLamp ® XP-G product family of Cree are setting standards in terms of directional lighting. The highly efficient XLamp XP-G LEDs reach a new level of performance from up to 140 lumens per watt, and they are immediately available from the MSC Vertriebs GmbH. They are suitable for various applications such as street and area lights, as a replacement for PAR spotlights and for strong flashlights. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Dec 05, 2011
Everlight Fights Back Against Nichia in LED Patent Battle
After Everlight won a victory over Nichia for the patent administrative litigation (Patent No. 089036) in the Taiwan Supreme Administrative Court in October 2011, the Taiwan Supreme Court this November ruled in favor of Everlight again in the civil infringement case on Nichia’s patent in issue, which finalizes all cases regarding this patent. Furthermore, facing the situation that Nichia has affected fair competitive market mechanisms by filing patent infringement lawsuits and announcing press releases, Everlight decided to fight back. Today (12/1), Everlight brought a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court demanding that Nichia stop spreading false allegations and seeking an award of damages. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Dec 02, 2011
Seoul Semiconductor and Philips Enter Into a Cross-License Agreement
Today, Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. announced that they and Royal Philips Electronics have agreed to settle their pending legal cases and to enter into a cross-license agreement covering patents relating to specific LED technology areas. Under this arrangement, each party gains access to a substantial part of the other party's patent portfolios for various LED level technologies. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Dec 02, 2011
Rejection of Osram’s Infringement Case vs. Dominant Issued by OLG Karlsruhe
The OLG Karlsruhe and the Landgericht Mannheim has confirmed that 10 of the claims against DOMINANT are not valid. As a result of the proceedings, the Federal Patent Court of Germany have also nullified 4 out of 7 Osram intellectual property rights and the European Patent Office has revoked one. Osram has been ordered to pay court fees. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 18, 2011
element14’s New Technology Portal Gives Design Engineers a One-Stop Location for Information on the Industry’s Newest Technologies
element14, a collaborative global electronics community from Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), has launched its New Technology portal, dedicated to showcasing the electronics industry’s latest new technologies and products. This new portal provides engineers and designers detailed information to help them with the challenge of familiarising themselves with new technology, that is less than 12 months old. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Oct 24, 2011
Nu Horizons Electronics Signs Global Distribution Agreement with Samsung LED
Nu Horizons Electronics (www.nuhorizons.com), an Arrow Electronics company, announced the signing of a distribution agreement with Samsung LED (www.samsungLED.com). Under the agreement, Nu Horizons customers around the world will have access to Samsung LED’s complete portfolio of energy-saving, long-life and environmentally friendly mid-power and high-power LEDs along with indoor and outdoor light engines. Read more »
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