Cathode Lighting Systems Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD) is pleased to announce that in a nullity suit proceeding, initiated by Cathode Lighting Systems Inc., against German patent DE 10 2004 003 871 "Fluorescent Lamp" (by Feelux Co., Ltd. Korea), the German Federal Court of Patents in Munich decided on December 28, 2011 to revoke the Feelux patent in the scope of its main claim 1 and its subclaims 2, 3 and 6.
The Feelux patent was revoked in a scope as requested by Cathode Lighting Systems Inc.
The court felt the subject of the main claim was not novel over the prior art and said subclaims were either not novel or not involving an inventive step.