ANSAN, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ:046890) (“Seoul”), a leading global innovator of LED products and technology, announced that Seoul won a patent infringement lawsuit against a global distributor of Everlight LED products in Germany. The German court issued a permanent injunction against the sales of the accused Everlight products and ordered the distributor to recall such products from commercial customers.
In March 2017, Seoul filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Germany at the District Court of Düsseldorf against Mouser Electronic Inc, accusing the distribution of certain Everlight LED products to infringe a patent that Seoul was enforcing. After 20 months of litigation proceedings, the Court rendered judgments in favor of SSC’s infringement claims, including ordering an injunction against sales of the accused Everlight products. The Court also ordered to recall the accused Everlight products sold after July 13, 2012 from the distributor’s commercial customers. The decision issued in the first instance.
The patented technology involved in this litigation serves to efficiently extract light emitted from the internal LED structure by treating LED chip surfaces, thereby significantly improving light intensity and brightness. This patented technology has been registered in major 12 countries including the US., Europe and Asia. It has been widely used for automobile headlamps, UV lighting, horticultural lighting, outdoor lighting, and cell phone flashlights. Therefore, this court judgment would enable Seoul to exercise its patent rights in the global LED market which is worth about $5 billion.
“We do our best to encourage a fair-competition environment, in which young entrepreneurs and small entities can succeed in the business world, relying on fair competition in the market and respecting hard-earned patented technology” said Sam Ryu, Seoul’s vice president of IT Business.
About Seoul Semiconductor
Seoul Semiconductor develops and
commercializes light emitting diodes (LEDs) for automotive, general
illumination, specialty lighting, and backlighting markets. As the
fourth-largest LED manufacturer globally, Seoul Semiconductor holds more
than 12,000 patents, offers a wide range of technologies, and mass
produces innovative LED products such as SunLike – delivering the
world’s best light quality in a next-generation LED enabling
human-centric lighting optimized for circadian rhythms; WICOP – a
simpler structured package-free LED which provides market leading color
uniformity and cost savings at the fixture level, providing high lumen
density and design flexibility; NanoDriver Series – the world’s smallest
24W DC LED drivers; Acrich, the world's first high-voltage AC-driven LED
technology developed in 2005, including all AC LED-related technologies
from chip to module and circuit fabrication, as well as multi-junction
technology (MJT); and nPola, a new LED product based on GaN-substrate
technology that achieves more than ten times the output of conventional
LEDs. UCD constitutes a high color gamut display which delivers more
than 90% NTSC. To learn more, visit www.seoulsemicon.com.
