For LED lighting enterprises in China, the patent is like a time bomb, but they bring catastrophic. With the passage of time and the development of the market, the global LED patent barriers slowly appeared loose, on the one hand is an early access to patent LED technology already or soon to be protection period. On the other hand, it was China LED lighting enterprise in technology research and development and the patent strategy, has come to the fore. a lot of companies have patent, like No.1 lighting’s 5w b22 led bulb,
dimmable led light bulbs and 5W led candelabra bulbs.
Once, after the collapse of light in shenzhen, light illumination, managing Wu in weibo wrote: “today on May 26. On July 4, the Gregorian calendar, Thursday. Yesterday, there are 2 LED enterprise bankruptcy, one is the shenzhen” light “bankruptcy, the shanzhai light right from the start thinking about crooked ways, the bankruptcy where it is comfortable, saved light clean it, good. The second is zhongshan male. Remember once again proved that no bottom line of the low price in the future. Those who have a passion for a low price of the dealer should take notice, it’s perhaps the next you. Japanese do: sustainable; unfavorable: base”. Two failures reflect the industry impetuous, lack of innovation in miniature. Such performance on products in the industry environment is the serious homogeneity, enterprises face the customer, lose their bargaining power, can only through the low price competition order.Patent strategy is the escort technology research and development
Patent strategy is an assurance companies can continue to gain competitive advantage. Early has invested on patent and prepared for the enterprise, now has to experience a patent for enterprise to bring security and to improve enterprise competitiveness.
Patent strategy planning strategies, best can lead to enterprise’s r&d before enterprise technology project, the project was started to patent search, patent barriers, to avoid patent trap, avoid patent by others, and through the patent technology development planning guidance planning direction.
Based on fundamental starting LED enterprises of China patent battle
China has LED the patent, can be in the top five in number, the number of patents in mainland China is located in the United States and Japan, roughly comparable to Germany, Taiwan, the larger proportion is the patent for utility model. More than 70% of the global LED application products, processing and manufacturing is done in China, this is “LED the patent wars”, China has the main farmar.