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Seoul Announces Nichia’s Patent Invalidation; SemiLEDs comes to Seoul’s Defense
Source/Type: Solid State Lighting Design LED Lighting News - News - Staff reports

Author: LIGHTimes Staff

October 2, 2008... Seoul Semiconductor announced on Wednesday that, the Korea Intellectual Property Tribunal (“KIPT”) ruled that a patent, related to LED element, (Patent # KP 491482) owned by Nichia Corporation is invalid based on lack of inventiveness. Seoul earlier had informed SemiLEDs that it was using the SemiLEDs’ MVP LED chips in its disputed Z-Power LED P9 Series white LED. In a follow-on announcement, SemiLEDs confirmed that Seoul was using SemiLEDs chips and that they had involved themselves in their customer's defense. (Ref: SemiLEDs News Release).

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