On February 2, 2018, Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Seoul") in Milan, Italy, on the global electronic components distribution business Ze Electronics (hereinafter referred to as "Mozawa") and its Italian subsidiary for its sales of billion LED The product initiated a patent infringement lawsuit.
According to the content of the lawsuit, Seoul declared that Moser must be responsible for selling the Everlight LED products that infringe Seoul's patent rights. Based on the alleged infringement, Seoul filed a permanent injunction, damages, withdrawal from the market and destruction of such products.
Prior to this lawsuit, Seoul filed two patent infringement suits in the Düsseldorf District Court in Germany in 2017, alleging that the company's sales of Everlight's high-power and mid-power LED products were infringing products.
Despite such lawsuits, Traders still sells products suspected of infringement in other countries. To this end, Seoul initiated the third patent infringement lawsuit against Traders' sales of Everlight LED products in Italy.
Seoul has invested 10% of its sales in research and development, more than $100 million a year to develop innovative technologies and strengthen its patent portfolio. Since the successful launch of the preliminary injunction against Taiwanese LED manufacturer AOT in 2005, Seoul has made a major commitment to protecting its intellectual property rights. For example, in 2014, Seoul filed a patent infringement lawsuit against two North American TV manufacturers. As a result, both companies eventually paid royalties to Seoul, and one of the manufacturers finally recognized the infringement and the court recognized it. Infringement judgment. In 2016, Seoul, in a lawsuit with the Japanese LED lens manufacturer Enplas in the US District Court, obtained a judgment on the lens patent that Enplas deliberately infringed. In 2017, Seoul settled a patent infringement lawsuit against Kmart. Eventually, Kmart agreed to stop selling LED filament lamps as part of the settlement. In addition, Seoul recently launched an activist campaign to protect its Acrich technology and filed a lawsuit against an American lighting manufacturer for a violation of 12 Acrich patents. During this period, Seoul continued to take action to alert other companies that they may be suspected of infringing patent rights.
Seoul plans to continue and strengthen patent protection activities for market participants suspected of infringement worldwide until they stop the alleged infringement, and Seoul also uses court remedies to resolve the damage caused by the alleged infringement.
According to a person from an intellectual property department in Seoul, “In order to fundamentally prevent the distribution of allegedly infringing products, we must expand our powers, including manufacturers and secondary product manufacturers who directly buy or use the allegedly infringing products. Distributor.
He added: "For young entrepreneurs and small businesses that are trying to realize their dreams with a creative idea, we believe that intellectual property rights should be respected."
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