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Friday 27 November 2015
US court fines Epistar US$9.3 million for patent infringement
The jury of a US district court in Massachusetts has made a preliminary decision to fine Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar US$9.3 million for infringing US patent...
Friday 23 October 2015
SAS offers free patent licensing
Solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) on October 22 announced the availability of free licensing for its patent No. 1452185 concerning the...
Tuesday 22 September 2015
CCL maker TUC faces fine in US over patent violation
Taiwan Union Technology (TUC) is facing a fine after a US jury found that its products violated two patents held by Isola, according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange...
Friday 11 September 2015
Foxconn August revenues up on year
Foxconn Electronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$292.92 billion (US$9.01 billion) for August, falling 6.17% on month but rising 6.48% on year, and NT$2.59 trillion for...
Tuesday 1 September 2015
Nichia sues Everlight subsidiary in Germany for patent infringement
Japan-based Nichia has filed a charge with the District Court of Dusseldorf, Germany, against WOFI Leuchten Wortmann & Filz GmbH, a Germany-based residential lighting subsidiary...
Wednesday 5 August 2015
Cree and Epistar sign LED chip patent cross-license agreement
Cree and Epistar have signed a worldwide patent cross-license agreement for LED chips to further advance the growth of the LED lighting and LED bulb markets. Cree and Epistar both...
Monday 27 July 2015
Nichia obtains 2 white LED patents from EPO, enhances patent infringement charge against Everlight
Japan-based Nichia has obtained two new white LED patents mainly concerning YAG phosphoric material from the European Patent Office (EPO). The two patents strengthen a pending charge...
Friday 24 July 2015
China 1H15 patent applications up 20.5% on year
China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) received 1.124 million patent applications (invention, utility or design) and granted 471,000 patents in the first half of 2015,...
Friday 24 July 2015
Epistar licenses LED filament patent to China-based Leedarson Lighting
LED Epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has licensed its LED filament patent to China-based LED lighting maker Leedarson Lighting for making LED filament style light bulbs. The...
Thursday 11 June 2015
Heraeus files patent infringement complaint against Giga Solar
Germany-based Heraeus Holding on June 10 filed with Taiwan's Intellectual Property Court a charge against Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials for allegedly...
Friday 5 June 2015
Aten International accuses Unisum, Beijing Hardlink of patent infringement
KVM switch solution provider Aten International on June 4 announced that it has filed with the Beijing Intellectual Property Court in northern China against China-based KVM providers...
Monday 27 April 2015
Everlight wins against Nichia in US patent infringement suit
In April 2012, Everlight Electronics filed for declaratory judgment of invalidity and non-infringement of Nichia's US patents related to white LEDs, including US Patent Nos. 5998925...
Friday 24 April 2015
MediaTek responds to patent infringement case brought by Synaptics against its China-based affiliate
The recent patent infringement case brought by Synaptics against Goodix Technology in the US will not affect MediaTek's overall operations, according to the Taiwan-based IC design...
Thursday 23 April 2015
Synaptics files patent complaints in protection of touch sensing technology
Synaptics has announced the filing of complaints against BLU Products and two Goodix entities, including Goodix Technology, in the US International Trade Commission (USITC) and US...
Tuesday 14 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Microsoft patent fee cut to attract vendors to pre-install apps in Android products
According to Digitimes Research's latest findings from Taiwan's and China's smartphone/tablet upstream supply chain, in exchange for hardware players to pre-install its software applications...