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Dec 14, 2011
Sumitomo Metal Mining Announces Commercialization of Large Sapphire Substrates Via Subsidiary Okuchi Electronics
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Nobumasa Kemori) announced a decision to launch commercialization of large sapphire substrates and to establish a mass production line within its fully-owned subsidiary Okuchi Electronics Co., Ltd. (Isa City, Kagoshima Prefecture).
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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.
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Dec 12, 2011
Optogan Enters the Turkish Lighting Market

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Dec 12, 2011
Altatech Semiconductor Enters LED Inspection Market with AltaSight LEDMax System
Altatech Semiconductor S.A. has entered the light-emitting diode (LED) inspection market by introducing its new AltaSight LEDMax® system, the company’s first product designed specifically for detecting, classifying and characterizing defects on wafers used in manufacturing LEDs.
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Dec 07, 2011
Acrich 2 AC / Mains LED Light Sources Now Available from YEG Opto

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Dec 07, 2011
Bridgelux Announces Commercial Availability of Latest Generation Array LEDs

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Dec 07, 2011
Highly Efficient XLamp ® XP-G LED Now Available from MSC

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nov 24, 2011
The Inventor of the White LED Celebrates his 80th Birthday

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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.
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Nov 15, 2011
IMS Research Issues New Forecast in Its Updated Quarterly LED Supply and Demand Report

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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.
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