subject: Led Industry On The Issue Of Intellectual Property [print this page] LEDPut into commercial use since the beginning , has gone through 40 years of market cultivation , and since the early 90s of the 20th century , LED lighting technology and the market has maintained rapid development of the state , LED industry, technology has now gradually mature . Since the concept of energy saving LED is green , so to LED technology as the representative of the photonics technology , is considered the most promising in the 21st century industrial technology .
70 years of the 20th century , the Chinese LED materials and devices started, 80 years industry has been formed , the early 90s with a considerable scale , followed by rapid development, but the production company focused on the downstream industry chain . In 2007, China's LED industry output of about 50 billion yuan ; in 2008 , driven by the Olympic Games in Beijing , the Chinese LED industry output of about 70 billion yuan ; in 2009 , even by the worldFinancialCrisis , the Chinese LED industry has about 83 billion yuan output value . This shows that LED industry market growth, be noted that the above statistics are not China Taiwan Region .
Sorted by country and region , the current leader in Japan and the U.S. technology is more , Germany, Korea , in some sub-field of LED technology also has significant technical reserves; sorted by market share , Japan and China Taiwan top two regional breakdown , the United States , the European Union And China followed . LED patent technology in the international dominance of the major manufacturers including Nichia ( Nichia ), ToyodaGosei ( Toyoda Gosei ), CREE ( Career ), PhilipsLumileds ( Philips lumens ), Osram ( Osram ) and so on .
With the development of economic globalization , intellectual property is increasingly becoming the focus of international competition , intellectual property rights typically include patent, trademark and copyright , with regional , such as the U.S. patent rights in the United States only . Meanwhile, state and corporate intellectual property is an important strategic resource. June 5, 2008 , China's " Outline of National Intellectual Property Strategy "formally promulgated and implemented , that it is necessary to intellectual property strategy as an important strategic , strengthen intellectual property rights .
In the LED field, patent litigation come and go, one trouble following another ; the LED in the upper reaches of the patented technology industry , mainly in the hands of foreign companies , that is, foreign companies grasp the strategic initiative in the patent .
In summary , LED industry widely , promising ; the Chinese LED industry as the core patented technology had to face a severe lack of patents , patent barriers to be bypassed , to avoid the trap to win the patent market , win development .
LED industry perilous
1 , the U.S. International Trade Commission Section 337 investigation
Section 337 is the United States against imports of unfair trade practices in the legislative investigation . Requirement for first in the " Tariff Act of 1930 "(thetariffandtradeact) named after the first 337 . It concerns the intellectual property of unfair trade , that in the United States after importation or importedSellIs an infringement of the legal protection of U.S. copyrights, patents, trademarks,ICThe right of layout- design right and the behavior of the product . Investigation techniques used in products as long as no intellectual property rights in the United States , even in the exporting country has the intellectual property rights , but also violated the U.S. intellectual property , and responding to charges hardly less than 1 million U.S. dollars . Determination of the defendant even if there is no infringement or unfair trade practices will not require the plaintiff to bear any liability.
Sanctions include : a limited exclusion order (limitedexclusionorder), general exclusion order (generalexclusionorder), temporary exclusion order (temporaryexclusionorder), ban (ceaseanddesistorders), seizure and confiscation orders and so on . Sanctions are not only recognized product identification , such as the issuance of general exclusion orders to ban the import of any infringing products .
