Intellectual Property Asia

The white LED manufacturer Nichia has apparently lost a case in Korea in which the Korean Intellectual Property Office ruled in favour of Baron Tech and cancelled a design patent (see separate Blog).

Nichia is suing another Korean company, SSC, in the US courts and two Taiwanese companies in Taiwan. Since the cancellation of the design patent seems to have been based on a pecularity of Korean law, it is unlikely to have any impact on these other cases.