Nichia Settles with Creative Technology in U.S. Litigation
Nichia Corporation Press ReleaseFlashlightNews.org - 11/27/2006
Company settles with one of several litigants in LED patent infringement dispute
Nichia Light Emitting Diode
TOKYO, Ja. - Nichia Corporation announced today the settlement of its pending design patent litigation in the U.S. between Nichia and Creative Technology Ltd, Creative Holdings Inc. and Creative Labs Inc.
On January 10, 2006, Nichia filed a Complaint in the Federal Court for the Northern District of California against Seoul Semiconductor Ltd. and its U.S. subsidiary Seoul Semiconductor Inc., as well as against Creative Technology Ltd and two of its U.S. subsidiaries, who had sold products which incorporated the LEDs manufactured by Seoul Semiconductor, alleging that they infringe 4 of Nichia’s design patents.
The parties have arrived at a commercial settlement which will be mutually beneficial.
NICHIA gives serious consideration to the protection of its intellectual property and will vigorously enforce its intellectual property rights in any country.
Pursuant to this settlement between Nichia and Creative, claims against the Creative Defendants will be dismissed in the pending lawsuit in California, while the case continues between Nichia and Seoul Semiconductor.
About Nichia Corporation
Having "Ever Researching for a Brighter World" as our motto, Nichia has grown in the field of manufacturing and sales of fine chemicals, particularly inorganic luminescent materials (phosphors). In the process of the challenging pursuit of brighter luminescent and light-emitting materials, we succeeded in developing and commercializing the super high brightness Blue LED in 1993. It was accepted with great amazement in the related industries throughout the world. Since the first announcement of the Blue LED in 1993, Nitride-based LEDs in different emission colors ranging from Ultraviolet to Yellow have been contributing to the diversification of LED application fields. In addition to LEDs, a lot of resources are now being focused on the R/D of bluish purple laser diodes, which will definitely play a key role for the further expansion of the information media industry. We have a belief that Nitride-based semiconductors will become one of the most exciting areas of the semiconductor industry in the near future. We hope that Nichia continue to be a company which will be able to make a contribution to the world by evolving its original and unique technologies into the actual manufacturing.
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