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Dominant violates Osram intellectual property rights
Patents infringed upon are used to produce homogeneous light used in white LEDs.
The higher regional court Karlsruhe has confirmed that Malaysian LED manufacturer Dominant is illegally using or has used Osram AG technology by infringing seven patents.
On July 25, 2007, the regional court Mannheim reached the same verdict regarding three of the patents. Osram had sued the manufacturer on several patents and industrial properties. “The ruling of the court of appeal in Karlsruhe is an important confirmation of our intellectual property rights”, said Aldo Kamper, CEO of Osram Opto Semiconductors.
An important group of patents, whose infringement the appeal court in Karlsruhe confirmed, affects conversion technology that helps produce homogeneous white light. This patent group is essential, as it is used in multiple forms of white LEDs.
The legal position of Osram against Dominant has already been confirmed in other countries. In the USA, the International Trade Commission imposed an import ban on certain Dominant products in February 2006 due to patent infringement.
On the other hand, suits filed by Dominant against Osram for inadmissable claims of patent infringement and improper exploitation of patent positions were rejected by courts in both the USA and Malaysia.
