Seoul Semiconductor Files Filament LED Patent Lawsuit against Feit Electric’s Distributor for Infringement of 16 LED Patents
2021.10.14
Seoul
Semiconductor Files Filament LED Patent Lawsuit against Feit Electric’s
Distributor for Infringement of 16 LED Patents
ANSAN, South Korea--Seoul Semiconductor
Co., Ltd. (“Seoul”) (KOSDAQ 046890), a leading
global innovator of LED products and technology, announced that it has filed a
patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western
District of Texas against Ace Hardware, a global retail company, for selling
filament LED bulbs and other LED products manufactured by Feit Electric. Seoul
claims that the infringement is willful and that Ace Hardware has continued to
sell Feit Electric’s products despite repeated notices.
Seoul Semiconductor’s 16 patented Technologies
In its complaint, Seoul
asserts infringement of 16 LED patents covering the manufacturing of LED
epitaxy, chips, packages, modules, lenses, and drivers. Those second generation
LED technologies include technologies for high color rendering, LED driver for
high-voltage operation, LED multi-junction, light diffusion lens, light extraction,
and LED reliability. Such technology is the result of more than USD 1 billion
of R&D investment.
“While global companies
emphasize corporate responsibility, such as ESG, many companies still
manufacture and sell products that may infringe intellectual properties in
order to gain short-term profits,” said Myeong-Ki Hong, CEO of Seoul. “We are
concerned that young innovators and small businesses are the ones who are
harmed,” he added.
Seoul has already
successfully obtained permanent injunctions for filament LED product sales
several times in Europe and the U.S. In September 2020, the German District
Court of Düsseldorf issued permanent injunctions, an order of recall and
destruction against filament LED bulbs manufactured by a Phillips brand affiliate.
In the U.S., the Texas Northern District Court also issued a permanent
injunction against certain LED bulbs distributed by America’s largest online
bulb retailer in September 2019. Seoul also secured permanent injunctions
against retailers selling certain Feit Electric products in the Eastern
District of Texas and Central District of California.
About
Seoul Semiconductor
Seoul Semiconductor is the
world’s second-largest global LED manufacturer, a ranking excluding the captive
market, and has more than 10,000 patents. Based on a differentiated product
portfolio, Seoul offers a wide range of technologies, and mass produces innovative
LED products for indoor and outdoor lighting, automotive, IT products, such as
mobile phones, computer displays, and other applications, as well as the UV
area. The company’s world’s first development and mass production products are
becoming the LED industry standard and leading the global market with a
package-free LED, WICOP; a high-voltage AC-driven LED, Acrich; an LED with 10X
the output of a conventional LED, nPola; a cutting edge ultraviolet clean
technology LED, Violeds; an all direction light emitting technology, filament
LED; a natural sun spectrum LED, SunLike; and more. For more information,
please visit www.seoulsemicon.com/en.
Contacts:
Seoul
Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
Jeonghee Kim
Tel: +82-70-4391-8311