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In the face of foreign patent “encirclement and suppressionâ€, Dongguan City established the LED Patent Alliance to try to “break through†with the model of corporate group and actively respond to overseas intellectual property risks. It is understood that the alliance will establish a database of LED patents and a patent navigation system, while providing litigation and anti-litigation services for enterprises.
There are currently 13 LE D companies joining the alliance.
In the process of developing the LED industry in recent years, patent rights are increasingly becoming one of the main tools for international giants to compete in the market, and play an increasingly important role. It is understood that the core patent technology in the field of LED upstream chips is mainly concentrated in several foreign-invested companies in Nichia, Philips and Osram. In the past year, the number of Chinese LED companies that have experienced patent litigation has increased significantly. In addition, there are many foreign-owned competitors with patents that will send lawyers' letters directly to downstream customers in China suspected of infringing LED companies overseas. As downstream customers are afraid to take joint and several responsibilities, they will often stop purchasing Chinese LED products.
In order to cope with the risks of such overseas intellectual property rights, Dongguan, which is vigorously developing the LED industry, began preparations for the LE D Patent Alliance a year ago. Until yesterday, the alliance was formally established and there are currently 13 LED companies joining the alliance.
Lu Jun, secretary-general of Dongguan Intellectual Property Association, said: "With the export-oriented development trend of Dongguan LE D industry, corporate intellectual property risk has become an unavoidable problem. The alliance was established mainly to allow alliance members to reduce the input cost of intellectual property. To build a shared information platform, actively respond to overseas intellectual property risks, and provide professional services and consulting in the field of patent technology for the LED industry in the city."
"Patent Navigation" will help industry deployment
According to the introduction of the Army, after the establishment of the alliance, the world LE D technology and patents will be investigated, collected, tracked and analyzed, and a LED patent database will be established, which will be provided to all members of the alliance for reference and application when researching and developing new products, and timely retrieval and update. Early warning mechanism to prevent alliance members from infringing on patents of others.
The alliance will also encourage and support alliance members to research and develop LED technology, organize research and development and division of labor, and promote new technology applications in the industry. "We will promote the integration of resources by member companies and joint development of new technologies."
In addition, the alliance will provide support in litigation and counter-suits. "We will collectively conduct intellectual property negotiations in the name of the alliance, reduce corporate expenses, including signing intellectual property service contracts with domestic and foreign agencies, and litigation negotiations with overseas LE D manufacturers," said the Army.
In addition, the alliance will develop a "patented navigation system." Wu Meiliang, deputy director of the Dongguan Science and Technology Bureau, has high hopes for this. He said at the meeting yesterday: "I hope that we can understand the development path of LE D through the establishment of the database, and analyze the current development trend in depth to judge the frontier. The technical direction, so that our LE D industry will have a more scientific development and deployment."
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Good time for enterprises to unite
The Army believes that this is the right time to establish an LED patent alliance. "First of all, foreign core patents are about to expire. According to the provisions of the Patent Law: the invention patent protection period is 20 years, the appearance patent protection period is 10 years, and a batch of LED-related patents applied in the early 1990s are now in progress. Has expired or is about to expire."
The Army said, "And foreign companies will develop more patent systems before they expire, which means that until now, including the next two or three years, the most mature LED patents in China have basically expired. The expiration of these patents means that we can not seize this opportunity well at the same time as the core technology expires. After the technology expires, the technology will be disclosed, can we develop on the basis of open technology? Some invention patents that are appropriate for us, that is, innovations in the original technology. The database established by the LED Patent Alliance will help us to carry out this work."
In addition, the current foreign patent barriers are heating up, there are considerable hidden dangers. "We can strengthen strategic research through alliances, enlarge the patent pool, integrate many patents, cross-authorize and cooperate with each other, and finally form a way to cope with the threat of international LED giants," said the Army.
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