Seoul Semiconductor has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Amazon, the world’s largest distributor.
Seoul Semiconductor announced on the 5th that it has filed a patent lawsuit against Amazon in the Unified Patent Court in Europe to prohibit the sale of patent-infringing products.
Despite receiving 15 sales prohibition judgments against manufacturers and sellers who violated patents in courts in the United States, Germany, France, and the Netherlands over the past five years, Seoul Semiconductor and its affiliates had the inconvenience of having to file lawsuits in individual countries.
However, with the launch of the Unified Patent Court in Europe, which holds the overall jurisdiction of European patent lawsuits in June last year, Seoul Semiconductor can now stop sales simultaneously throughout Europe with just one lawsuit against patent-infringing products distributed throughout Europe. If a sales ban and damages judgment for patent infringement is received from a court under the jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court in Europe, it will take effect simultaneously in 17 European countries, including Germany, France, and Italy.
Among more than 18,000 patents that Seoul Semiconductor holds, the patent filed in this lawsuit is a solution patent technology that allows the brightness and color of LED lighting products to be freely set over time. It is widely used in smart lighting products and color-tunable lighting. In addition, heat dissipation LED package patent technology was also used in this patent lawsuit. This technology, where heat dissipation design is crucial, is widely used in automotive lighting.
Park Han Seon, Vice President of Marketing at Seoul Semiconductor, said, “There can be unfairness in birth, but opportunities in life must be fair,” and added, “Many large corporations are marketing Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG), but they have little interest in intellectual property, allowing illegal products to circulate and blocking the way to a fair society.”
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