Apple has filed for a new patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office entitled “Quantum dot-enhanced display having diachronic filter” for enhancement of color accuracy in displays. This patent shows the company’s eagerness in researching next-generation screen technology to keep their products on the cutting edge.

Lighting Science announced that founder and Chief Technology Officer Fred Maxik has been awarded his 100th patent by the United States Patent & Trademark Office. This milestone marks a prestigious career of LED innovation including patents for the first biologically-corrected lighting which is the genesis of the recently launched, ground-breaking Good Night™ LED lamp and the Awake & Alert™ LED lamp.

ADVS-technologies is pleased to file the patent application, and to begin development of the intelligent ParallelView™ LED illuminated MagicLight™ products, which are configurable for a variety of applications, providing the most pleasant general lighting environment for the users.

O2Micro(R) International Limited was issued 20 claims under United States patent number 8,120,280 for its Circuits and Methods for LED control. This invention controls the power delivered to the LED string to achieve the predetermined brightness, including proper dimming control. "O2Micro's invention provides a user-friendly dimming control frequency to LED lighting applications," remarked Dr. Yung Lin, executive vice president, O2Micro....

Nichia has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Germany at the District Court Düsseldorf against Zenaro Lighting GmbH ("Zenaro"), which is a German LED lighting company mainly owned by Everlight, and the German distributor REGO-Lighting GmbH on April 27, 2012. In the lawsuit, Nichia is seeking permanent injunction, rendering account, damages, recall and destruction against an office light of Zenaro (product number: OL-Deluxe/QL2/P44/LF/D50/SR/M/CE/ZN) including white LED tubes (product number: SL-Cobra/T5 048DC/C/P10/L...

Over recent years, due to the promising future of green lighting, an increasing number of enterprises have entered the emerging industry of LED lighting and joined its fierce competition. In the LED jungle, how to give full play to the advantage and achieve success in the tough competition is a challenge posed to all players. For this reason, LEDinside interviewed Mr. Meng Guo, the Operation Director of Good Creative Technology (GCT)to invite him to talk about the development of the company and share its experiences.         Mr.M...

O2Micro(R) International Limited was issued 20 claims under United States patent number 8,111,017 for its Circuits and Methods for LED Free Dimming(TM) control. Free Dimming is O2Micro's dimming technology built into a LED light source. It allows the end-user to toggle dimming control using a standard on/off wall switch....

Fairchild Semiconductor has filed new patent infringement claims against Power Integrations' LinkSwitch-PH LED power conversion products. The new lawsuit follows last week's jury verdict finding that Power Integrations' LinkSwitch-II and LinkSwitch-CV products infringe Fairchild patent claims. Fairchild is asserting three new patents that extend the company's primary side regulation technology, already found infringed by Power Integrations, to LED power conversion technology. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for...

CIVILIGHT Shenzhen Semiconductor Lighting Co., Ltd defended China patent on April 19, the 2nd day of 2012 ‘Light + Building’ Frankfurt trade fair, Frankfurt, Germany, Europe. CIVILIGHT has adhered its enterprise value, “To be a respected corporation, and enhance human lighting with technologies”, to be a responsible company with highly customers recommendation since its establishment. Independent research and development is always CIVILIGHT’s motivation. As a result, more than 200 national or international patents ha...

O2Micro® International Limited was issued 18 claims under United States patent number 8,076,867 for its Driving Circuit invention. O2Micro's patented invention includes the benefits of United States patent number 8,044,608, eliminating use of a dedicated apparatus to control LED brightness. Thus, component count and the cost of end-user panel brightness control are reduced. "This invention can continuously adjust LED brightness controlled by an AC wall switch," remarked Dr. Yung Lin, executive vice president, O2Micro.  ...

Everlight filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nichia in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The lawsuit seeks to enjoin Nichia from manufacturing, using, importing, offering for sale, or selling its infringing products in the United States. It also seeks monetary damages. In its complaint, Everlight is seeking enforcement of a patent covering LED metallization technology, U.S. Patent No. 6,653,215. Everlight is the exclusive U.S. licensee of the ‘215 Patent, which is owned by Emcore Corporation. Uses for Ni...

According to Nichia, the company has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Harvatek and the German distributors MSC Microcomputers Systems Components Vertriebs GmbH, "Gleichmann & Co." Electronics GmbH and Glyn Jones GmbH & Co. Vertrieb von elektronischen Bauelementen KG, at the District Court Düsseldorf in Germany on March 29, 2012. The court found with judgments of the same day that Harvatek and said distributors infringe Nichia's patent EP 936 682 (DE 697 02 929) (hereinafter called "YAG patent") concer...

LED Patent Lawsuits - Japan Maker LED Patent Lawsuits - US, EU & Korea Makers LED Patent Agreements Nichia Dismissed White LEDs Patent infringement with U.S. Company Considering LED-application products containing LEDs marketed by WILMAR CORPORATION (...

Company Patents Intellectual Property Developed for New OEM Products

Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd. and Sharp Corp have entered into a cross-licensing agreement, which granted each other the right to use inventions related to nitride-based LEDs and laser diodes covered by patents owned by the respective companies in Japan and in other countries.

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. Thursday announced that it has been issued three new design patents related to its Array™ Lighting LED replacement light bulb product line. US Design Patent No. D600,837 – LIGHT (Par 38); US Design Patent No. D601,276 – LIGHT (Par 30) and US Design Patent No.

Cree, Inc. announces that it has acquired a portfolio of patents and patent applications related to semi-insulating silicon carbide (SiC) material and power device technology from Daimler AG. The portfolio consists of approximately 20 patent families, including issued patents in the United States, Germany, Japan, and China. U.S. Patent No.