Seoul Semiconductor Acrich Patent Litigation and Patent Licensing

- Patent litigation against US lighting companies and retailers that sell products suspected of infringing Acrich's patents.

- Acrich technology, which was first developed by Seoul Semiconductor in the world, is a technology necessary for high voltage and high output LEDs required for lighting and television.

- In order to popularize and spread Acrich technology, Seoul Semiconductor will begin to operate a conditional patent licensing implementation project

Seoul’s first LED franchise, Seoul Semiconductor and its subsidiary Seoul Weisuo, announced on the 8th of this month that they have sold products in the US federal court to the United States for allegedly infringing on Acrich technology developed for the first time in the world. Lighting companies and retailers filed three patent infringement lawsuits.

Seoul Semiconductor filed a patent infringement lawsuit against "ServiceLighting ElectronicalSupplies" in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on the grounds of allegedly selling an LED bulb that infringes 10 Acrich patents. ServiceLighting is the largest online light bulb product in the United States. Operator of the trading platform (1000bulbs.com).

In addition, Seoul Semiconductor filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the “Philcort TV & Electronic” division in the US federal court in Nevada on the grounds of allegedly selling a product that infringed eight Acrich patents; it also infringed eight Accich patents against Archipelago Lighting. As a result, in the Central District of California, the United States, the additional lawsuit was filed. In September last year, Seoul Semiconductor filed an infringement lawsuit against Archipelago Lighting for allegedly infringing 12 Acrich patents, this time because of the discovery of different types of Acrich patent infringements in other lighting products of the company.

In a series of patent infringement lawsuits, Seoul Semiconductor has revealed that a number of LED bulbs, including LED filament bulbs, infringe more than 20 Acrich patents. The infringing patents include optimized LEDDriver technology for high voltage drives in small spaces. Multi-chip production and installation technology integrating multiple chips, LED packaging, filament LED production technology, LED EPI layer culture and chip production technology.

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Acrich is the technology necessary to achieve high voltage and high output. Recently, with the increasing demand for high-voltage LEDs above 12V in the lighting field, Acrich technology has become more and more widely used in various lighting products such as street lamps and LED filament bulbs. In addition, Acrich technology facilitates the implementation of local dimming, while the implementation of local dimming can improve the brightness ratio performance, so Acrich technology is also widely used in high-definition TV products of UHD (Ultra High Definition).

Li Yongtai, deputy director of Seoul Semiconductor Compliance Support Office, said: "Seoul Semiconductor will continue to issue patent infringements to lighting companies, electronics companies and retailers that produce and sell products suspected of infringing Acrich's patents without proper permission. At the same time, Seoul Semiconductor will also announce and implement a conditional patent licensing program in the near future to promote the popularization of Acrich technology necessary for driving high voltage LED drivers and packaging and AC driving LED drivers. It has spread in the market.” Vice President Li also said: “We will do our utmost to contribute to the creation of a healthy social culture that respects intellectual property rights, and to make those patents made by young people and small and medium-sized enterprises with tears and sweat. Technology gets the rewards it deserves, allowing these technologies to become popular and spread in the marketplace by fair competition, and ultimately benefiting consumers."


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