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Nichia patent litigation strategy in LED area

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

from ETNews:Nichia?s such patent strategy has been widely known in overseas market. Starting with six year long lawsuit with Toyota Gosei since 1996, it has had continued patent lawsuit with Osram, Cree and Citizen. As a result of lawsuits, it has gotten mutual patent sharing and unilateral patent possession. With patent dispute, it has put pressure on companies using rival?s LED to keep market share and at the same time has gotten patent use fee. In addition, Nichia could maintain price competi read more

Full post as published by IPBiz on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).