To solve the energy shortage, energy conservation and emissions reduction, our country in recent years, vigorously promote energy conservation and environmental protection economic strategy, national Treasury Department also announced in last month the government procurement “tilt”, subsidies and other new energy policy and funding initiatives, new energy industry development, such as pushing the LED department of shenzhen branch letter more have LED industry as emerging industry key support. It is reported that the municipal government has recently decided to, in the next three years, strongly promote the development of LED industry to spend 300 million yuan.
Although LED technology application and promotion conditions mature, a piece of good “money”, but in the recently held in shenzhen LED industry “intellectual property rights (ipr) protection policy seminar”, made a special trip to come to attend the seminar Mao Jinsheng, director of the state intellectual property office of the development research center of authority, but for the current in shenzhen and other places LED industry development “short board” and the serious problems, warned loudly.
Most companies do not have the LED core patents and technology, it is currently in shenzhen and other places into LED industry’s biggest problems. Mao Jinsheng on the analysis of the global LED patent layout present situation, according to current according to the regional distribution, the global most patents mainly from countries such as Japan and the United States, South Korea enterprise application and monopoly, and apply for only about 5% of Chinese mainland. In the Chinese patent application for LED, shenzhen patent filings grew fastest in recent years, the nation in the first place, a total of 315 applications. But with national patent “similar in other parts of the LED, shenzhen these patent application time later, basically is submitted after started in 2000, and the utility model and appearance patents account for small proportion. From patent technology areas or the entire LED industry chain, these patents are mainly concentrated in relatively low-end encapsulation, application, such as the downstream industry, very few patent high technology content.
Companies need to actively cope with patent risk
Tort litigation risk and from international trade, has now become many shenzhen LED enterprises must solve. Last year, according to the municipal intellectual property aspect, the ITC (the U.S. international trade commission) launched a dedicated to the LED “337 investigation” of a patent infringement case, Chinese industry attention, because of the “337 survey”, the range is very large, in addition to LG electronic, MOTOROLA, nokia, samsung, SONY, Toshiba and other international well-known brands, v. 30 companies in the world list, four Chinese companies involved. This among them, involved in shenzhen enterprises accounted for three: shenzhen super yi electronics, optoelectronics, chau lei.