LED manufacturers were reconciled with patent cross license agreements

The idustry report indicates that during the 15 years between 1996 and 2010, there had been 168 led high bay light patent infringement lawsuits world-wide. Among them, 62 lawsuits were from Nichia, 28 from Philips, 20 from Cree, 18 from Epistar Group, 10 from patent licensing company.

However, most patent infringement lawsuits between international LED manufacturers were reconciled with patent cross license agreements . For example, Osram, Cree, Nichia, Toyoda Gosei and Philips have respectively reached LED patent cross license agreements in 2011.

The license provides Cooper with full access to the Philips’ LED-related patented technologies that Philips makes available to the lighting industry through its LED Luminaire and Retrofit Bulb licensing program.

“We are very pleased that Cooper has joined our licensing program. We believe having such an open and accessible license program is greatly assisting in accelerating the adoption of led linear high bay light and fostering the growth of the LED industry”, said Arian Duijvestijn, General Manager Lighting at Philips Intellectual Property & Standards.