LED lamp intellectual property issues

A product, two brands, this clothing industry rampant in the cottage has become commonplace. Recently, consumers and manufacturers have seen another strange phenomenon, the same LED glass tube coating and structural design and coating methods, Shenzhen Dongying Chemical and Philips announced the same process, and all claimed to have a patent. A dispute between plagiarism and plagiarism also spreads between these two brands. Surprisingly, this plagiarist turned out to be the internationally renowned big-name "Philips", and also made people inside and outside the industry have a keen interest in this low-key chemical company moving profit.

In September 2014, Philips introduced a new glass tube series - an extraordinary series of glass lamps. At the beginning of the listing, at the same time that it was loved by some consumers, there was a discussion about designing plagiarism. Foshan Lighting has long claimed that it owns related patents for glass lamps, and Shenzhen Dongying Chemical and many other companies have claimed that they have some or all of their patents, plus chips, power supplies, etc., and a patented LED lamp design has reached more than 20 items. Intellectual property rights have always been a hurdle for the LED industry.

LED intellectual property issues or trigger an industrial crisis According to relevant data, currently more than half of the global LED technology and patents are controlled by large international companies. Japan's Nichia Chemical, Toyota Synthetic, the United States Cree, the Philips of the Netherlands, OSRAM and other foreign companies in Germany hold a large number of patents, covering almost the entire industry chain including raw materials, equipment, packaging and applications. In contrast, patent applications in China's LED industry are mainly concentrated in the midstream and downstream areas of the industry, in which the patent applications for the mid-stream packaging and downstream applications account for more than 60% of the total number of applications, mainly for utility model patent applications and design patent applications. The invention patent application accounted for relatively low. In particular, key patents concerning the long-term development of the industry still lack core patents. As China's LED chip companies in the high-power LED chip epitaxial technology is subject to the constraints of the core patents, resulting in exports of high-end LED lighting products almost all use foreign companies LED chips. At the same time, due to the relatively low technical thresholds in the middle and lower reaches, the structure and shape of the products can be easily imitated. Manufacturers chasing short-term profits will flood the market with low-quality and low-quality products through simple plagiarism, disrupt the market order, and hinder the promotion of high-quality products.

The world is changing, science and technology are developing, and lighting is an integral part of human life. From the fire, the torch, the oil lamp, the incandescent lamp, the energy saving lamp, to the current smart LED lamps, it has been going through thousands of years. History also contains human wisdom. However, we have also noticed that some companies in the LED industry do not have “bright” behavior, directly stealing other people’s R&D achievements and counterfeiting. This not only infringes on the intellectual property rights of R&D companies, it is not conducive to the long-term development of the industry, but also Damage to consumer interests. A product, a technology, a copy of a design, and a non-innovation extension will only exacerbate the status quo of “low-end excess capacity and high-end capacity shortage” in the LED industry, and it is not conducive to the reform and development of the company itself.

The battle for success has always been "new winners". Yingying Chemicals has a long-term success in cross-border LED lighting industry. China's lighting industry has long been in the competitive status of international brands. Philips, Osram, GE and other international giants rely on high-end international brand image to cover almost all lighting. The full line of products, domestic only NVC, Op, QS and other several companies represent the engineering and commercial lighting, outdoor lighting to compete with them. At present, the real sense of the domestic industry, a serious lack of brand names, and category integration, public branding will become the domestic industry leader in the category of brands to build the inevitable road, the brand category is still confused break.

According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 3,000 LED manufacturers in Shenzhen alone, and the annual production capacity is about 2.5 billion. At the same time, traditional IT companies, home appliance companies, and even Internet companies such as Xiaomi, 360, and Ali have also crossed the border into LED smart lighting. Under such optimistic market conditions, due to excessive competition, the days of the companies in the industry are not too good. In terms of market purchasing power, which type of lighting company can stand out from the market share, from the perspective of market share, BP Chemicals, as a company entering the LED lighting industry from traditional chemical materials, does not exceed its LED product line beyond the industry's best. The giant, but its competitive strength in the subdivided area has already been paid attention to by the giants such as Philips, imitated and plagiarized enough to see the company's development potential that cannot be ignored.

Regardless of where the temporary benefits are attributed, in terms of long-term development, the vanguard of the industry only belongs to companies that are eager to innovate and truly possess high-quality independent intellectual property rights. Kinying Chemical has many years of technical precipitation in chemical coatings and glass lamps. It is understood that the company has formed a systematic research base from materials to processing and application of complete technology and intellectual property systems.

The independent innovation has been integrated into the dynamic corporate culture and blood. Based on the core competitiveness, Kinetic Chemical has broken through the material technology concept and adopted a non-discriminatory global market standard to meet the market and partners with a higher standard than the EU standards. Industrial responsibility and industry self-discipline actively pursue product technology innovation and business diversification. We are looking forward to this Shenzhen company injecting fresh blood and vitality into the lighting industry in Shenzhen and throughout the country.