The lack of core patents in China's LED patents only stays in the "utility model"?

With the development of economic globalization, intellectual property has increasingly become the focus of international competition. In the field of LEDs, patent litigation has come and gone. From the beginning of 2008 to the first half of 2012, Chinese LED companies have been repeatedly investigated by the US “337”, involving companies covering multiple links in the industrial chain. The LED market is broad and the prospects are bright, and the Chinese LED industry has to face serious patent disputes due to the lack of core patent technology.

In the future, how Chinese LED companies bypass patent barriers, avoid patent traps, and win the market. It is necessary for the scientific and technological community, industry and government to jointly build LED patent strategies, establish an early warning mechanism for intellectual property rights, and create a good ecological environment for industrial development.

At present, the patent problems faced by China's LED industry are multifaceted. First of all, the quality of patents in China's LED industry is not high. If we look at the quantity alone, China has the second largest number of LED patents in the United States and Japan, which is roughly equivalent to Germany, but there are a considerable number of utility model patents. In addition, China's patents in the upstream and downstream areas of the LED industry chain, the number of patents is much lower than Japan, the United States, and lower than Germany. The layout of LED patents in China is very imperfect, and there are very few core patents that are really useful.

Second, the ecological environment of China's intellectual property rights needs to be improved. Companies that have invested heavily in technological innovation and have done well have not received benefits and benefits. Emphasizing innovation and focusing on intellectual property rights is only a certain expression. Infringing and plagiarizing companies have little or no price, and this ecological environment makes it difficult for the seedlings of technological innovation to thrive.

There are many ways to solve the current patent problem, but innovation is undoubtedly a consensus, and patent strategy is innovation-based.

Some people say that innovation "starts with patents and ends with patents." That is to say, enterprises must have specialized technical personnel to analyze relevant patents, find useful core patents, analyze which patents pose a threat to themselves, and make secondary innovations on this patent, form their own intellectual property rights, and finally form patents.

At the same time of original innovation to form original patents, the second innovation patent is also a very important starting point and foothold for the company to develop a patent strategy, but most domestic enterprises are not aware of this, which is also a Chinese patent for LED companies. Lack of self-confidence. In fact, secondary development and innovation on the basis of the original patents of major international companies, forming their own new patented technology, and participating in global market competition have opportunities. This is one of the important ways for Chinese LED companies to break through foreign patent blockade and monopoly. . Both the second patent and the original patent are protected by the intellectual property law. To do this well, it is entirely possible for domestic enterprises to achieve the purpose of mutual authorization with international large companies.

The patent strategy is not terrible. It is a game rule. Chinese LED companies should enhance their confidence. At present, there are many patents in the global LED field, but there are not many patents that can pose a threat to other companies. For example, Nichia has thousands of patents that can be found, but the core patents that are actually used in product production are nothing more than blue light. The phosphor is converted into white light technology, P-type activation technology, low temperature transition layer technology and the like. Therefore, the quality of patents is more important than quantity. Chinese LED companies only need to carry out original innovation or secondary innovation on certain core unit technologies, and they have the opportunity to participate in the future LED international market competition.

LED inventor Nick Helenak said in October that, to a certain extent, LED is in the "infancy," indicating that there is still a lot of room for technological innovation, and there are still many opportunities to obtain original invention patents. The state should continue to increase investment and lay out the research and development work of the next generation of LED lighting technology as early as possible, such as non-phosphorescent white LED lighting technology, ultra-high efficiency green LED technology, ultra-high efficiency yellow LED technology, etc. Intellectual property rights, obtain the corresponding invention patent rights, and form a competitive advantage in the future market.

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