xmedia - Seoul Semiconductor expresses aplomb that it is not anarchic Nichia's patent

SEOUL, KOREA -- September 17, 2008, Seoul Semiconductor (hereafter "Seoul") clearly appear it had the agency to authorize its non-infringement of any accurate affirmation in a accusation brought by Nichia Corporation (hereafter "Nichia") in the English High Court, in which Nichia asserts that Nichia asserts through their website and columnist absolution that Seoul's Acriche articles borrow its patented "annealing" technology. Regarding this lawsuit, Seoul believes it has acceptable above-mentioned art to accept Nichia's apparent revoked as it is invalid. According to Seoul's acknowledged team, Seoul's Acriche articles is accepting bogus beneath a licence for a accompanying technology from Rothschild Neumark and UCSB. Thus Seoul has a close acceptance it doesn't borrow Nichia's patent. Seoul finds it harder to see how Nichia's apparent in this accusation can be accurate over Professor Neumark's [earlier] apparent and above-mentioned technologies. Furthermore, Seoul has an assessment from a Japanese apparent specialist that assorted agnate technologies accept existed before. Seoul said it had brought up proposals to accompany affliction lawsuits adjoin Nichia's patents and accept them revoked. And Seoul added added lawsuits brought by it to invalidate Nichia's patents are on-going in the US, Japan and Korea. A Seoul official said, "We will accumulate our barter appropriate and abroad from accident by all of Nichia's lawsuits, including this bare one. Also, we accompany abolishment accomplishments to assure stockholder's rights and to ensure our aggregation can abide to accord to development of the world". In this lawsuit, it is bright that Seoul seems to be unpertured.

About Seoul Semiconductor
Seoul Semiconductor, the world’s arch LED manufacturer, has been called to Forbes and Business Week’s lists as one of the a lot of able Asian companies. Its product, Acriche, was called as "Product of the Year", in 2006 and 2008, by Elektronik, one of the a lot of celebrated electronics magazines in Europe. Seoul Semiconductor’s primary business areas are LED packaging and custom bore manufacturing. It provides a abounding ambit of LED articles including AC-driven semiconductor ablaze source, Acriche, High-brightness Power, Side View, Top, Chip, Lamp and High Flux LEDs, and custom blazon modules. Applications for the company’s LED articles cover accepted lighting, signage, aback lighting for adaptable phones, TVs, anthology computers, automotive lighting, home appliances, signals, etc. Seoul Semiconductor appear US$290 actor in sales in 2007. It has 1,443 patents and 264 licenses as of December 2007. Seoul Semiconductor has 25 branches including 3 across accumulated offices. Its articles are aswell represented common by added than 90 distributors.

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