xmedia - Seoul Semiconductor Win Repeated Attempts to Challenge its White LED Patent

SEOUL, KOREA (October 16, 2007) - Seoul Semiconductor (KOSDAQ: 046890), one of the eight better LED manufacturers in the world, appear today that on October 11, 2007 the Patent Court of Korea angry down appeals brought by Taiwan-based Advanced Optoelectronic Technology Inc.(AOT) and Korea-based ITSWELL to annul beforehand decisions from the Korean Intellectual Property Tribunal. The Tribunal had alone apparent abolishment accomplishments brought by AOT and ITSWELL adjoin Seoul Semiconductor's account apparent for bearing white LED.
In 2005, Seoul Semiconductor filed and won all the basic injunctions for contravention of apparent pertaining to its white LED adjoin AOT and ITSWELL in Seoul Central District Court. AOT and ITSWELL responded to these injunctions by filing abolishment accomplishments adjoin Seoul Semiconductor's white LED apparent in the Korean Intellectual Property Tribunal citation that Seoul Semiconductor's white LED apparent lacks novelty. The Korean Intellectual Property Tribunal alone both AOT and ITSWELL's abolishment accomplishments at the end of endure year.
AOT and ITSWELL appealed even this cardinal issued by of the Korean Intellectual Property Tribunal, and filed lawsuits with the Patent Court of Korea. The October 11 accommodation from the Patent Court of Korea acutely establishes the Seoul Semiconductor's white LED apparent in Korea.
In addition, the Intellectual Property Office in Taiwan alone AOT's abolishment action adjoin Seoul Semiconductor's white LED apparent in Taiwan in August 3, 2007.
Those accomplishment acutely allegorize the change and authority of Seoul Semiconductor's white LED patent, and affirm Seoul Semiconductor's all-around position as a arch innovator of LED lighting technology.
Seoul Semiconductor is the eighth-largest LED specialist in the apple in 2006. The white LED apparent was issued in the above countries such as the USA, Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea, establishing a able foundation for all-around apparent protection.

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Rita Kim
Seoul Semiconductor
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About Seoul Semiconductor
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