Intellectual Properties

IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Jul 29, 2010
Nichia and Luminus Enter Cross Licensing and Manufacturing Partnership
Nichia Corporation and Luminus Devices Inc., today announced an alliance based on cross-licensing of intellectual property, technology sharing, and a manufacturing partnership. The two companies have agreed to combine their expertise and resources in order to bring to the market a new breed of high power white LEDs. Read more »
IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Jul 30, 2010
Color Kinetics and High End Systems announce licensing agreement
Color Kinetics Incorporated (NASDAQ: CLRK) and High End Systems Inc., respective industry leaders in LED and entertainment lighting systems, today announced a global licensing agreement that reflects a continuing surge in the use of LED sources for stage and event lighting. High End Systems will license Color Kinetics' patent portfolio to develop its first line of products incorporating multicolor LEDs. The initial offering will uniquely combine conventional sources with LEDs for accent purposes. Read more »
IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Sep 09, 2010
Nichia Files 4 Provisional Injunction Actions Against a Seller of LED Light Bulbs
Nichia Corporation announced today that it had filed four provisional injunction actions in Tokyo District Court to enjoin Tsannkuen Japan (Sankun Nihon Denki Kabushiki Kaisha) from infringing Nichia's patent. Nichia believes white LEDs used in certain LED light bulb products of Tsannkuen Japan, sold by G.K. Seiyu and K.K. Yamada Denki, infringe Nichia's white LED patents (No. 3724498, No. 3995011, No. 4109297, No. 4530094), and have come to file the provisional injunction actions in Tokyo District court. The patent is one of Nichia's patents concerning the technology of combining phosphor with blue LED, and is employed in many white LED products that combine phosphor with blue LED. Read more »
IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Oct 08, 2010
Kyma Acquires Select Assets and IP Rights from Fox Group
Kyma Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of ultra-high purity crystalline gallium nitride (GaN) and aluminum nitride (AlN) materials and related products and services, is pleased to announce that Kyma has acquired from The Fox Group certain assets and intellectual property rights. Read more »
IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Oct 12, 2010
Citizen Electronics and Once Innovations Sign License Agreement
Once Innovations, Inc. and Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd. have entered into a license agreement designed to accelerate growth of LED general lighting markets. The agreement gives Citizen access to part of the Once IP portfolio related to AC LED conditioning technologies and color temperature shift control for dimmable AC LED lighting. Read more »
IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Nov 12, 2010
Luminus Devices Awarded 50th U.S. Patent For ‘Big-Chip’ LEDs
Luminus Devices, developer and manufacturer of ‘big-chip’ PhlatLight® LEDs, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently awarded the company its 50th patent. Having pioneered big-chip LED technology, Luminus has aggressively filed intellectual property (IP) for protection of big chip LED devices, packages and systems. In addition, the company has also been granted 13 non-U.S. issued patents in China, Korea and Taiwan that extend big-chip LED protection into those countries. Read more »
IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Nov 17, 2010
Intematix and Tridonic Consortium Announce Agreement on BOSE Phosphor Patents for LEDs
Intematix, a leading U.S. manufacturer of LED phosphors, and Tridonic, a leading manufacturer of lighting components and part of the Zumtobel Group of Austria, today announced a comprehensive licensing agreement governing silicate patents for LEDs. The patents control the use of LED phosphor materials and the application of the phosphors in LEDs. The BOSE patents are held by a consortium of four companies: Tridonic, Toyoda Gosei, Leuchtstoffwerk Breitungen and Litec GbR. Read more »
IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Jan 21, 2011
Power Integrations Awarded Double Damages in Patent-Infringement Case Against Fairchild Semiconductor
Power Integrations today announced that a federal district court has doubled the financial damages awarded to the company in its patent-infringement case against Fairchild Semiconductor. This action follows an earlier ruling in which the Court found that Fairchild's infringement of Power Integrations' patents was willful. Following the increase, the total damage award now stands at approximately $12 million. Read more »
IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 04, 2011
Cree and Osram Sign Comprehensive Patent Cross License Agreement
Cree, Inc. and Osram GmbH announce the signing of a comprehensive, worldwide patent cross-license agreement. The agreement underscores each company’s commitment to speeding the adoption of LED lighting while respecting the value and importance of each company’s intellectual property. The cross-license agreement covers patents from both parties in the fields of blue LED chip technology, white LEDs and phosphors, packaging, LED luminaires and lamps, and LED lighting control systems. Read more »
IP, Reports & Roadmaps | May 06, 2011
Samsung and Evident Technologies Enter into LED Patent Agreement
Evident Technologies Corporation and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd have entered into a comprehensive patent licensing and purchasing agreement for Evident?s quantum dot LED technology. This agreement grants Samsung worldwide access to Evident?s patent portfolio for all products related to quantum dot LEDs from manufacture of the quantum dot nanomaterials to final LED production. Read more »
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