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LpS2018 | Event News | News-Spot | Oct 02, 2018
1600 Delegates Question the Future of Lighting Technologies at LpS 2018
1600 Delegates Question the Future of Lighting Technologies at LpS 2018 The greatly anticipated 8th LED professional Symposium +Expo was the most comprehensive international event in lighting technologies to date. Over 1,600 leading technology experts, from industry and research, came together in Bregenz last week to explore, innovate and shape the future of lighting technologies together. Read more »
Event News | News-Spot | LpS 2019 | TiL 2019 | Sep 17, 2018
LpS Aims to Prepare Its Delegates for the Digital Future
LpS Aims to Prepare Its Delegates for the Digital Future LEDification shook the world of lighting to its core, transforming how we engineer, innovate, design and even live. Today, in lighting, we know the next huge revolution is upon us, but unlike LEDification, this next phase is not really clear enough to define, predict or plan for. Siegfried Luger, Director of LpS, shares his thoughts on what we need to still focus on in engineering, what changes we need to make, and how he hopes LpS can guide attendees to building a secure, relevant and valuable future in lighting. Read more »
Event News | News-Spot | Sep 17, 2018
LensVector and Casambi Team for Remote Site Control of Lighting and Dynamic Beam Shaping
LensVector and Casambi Team for Remote Site Control of Lighting and Dynamic Beam Shaping A hands-on workshop featuring Bluetooth controls and Dynamic Beam Shaping™ will be presented by LensVector and Casambi at the upcoming darc room conference and exhibition, which takes place during the London Design Festival. Participants in the workshop will be able to set up a scene, alter the light levels, adjust the color temperatures and change the beam distribution – all from their mobile device. Visitors to the stand will also be able to control the beam shape from multiple luminaires and, for the first time, remotely view and control a professional lighting installation in Italy. Read more »
Smart Lighting + IoT | News-Spot | Systems + Applications | Resources | Projects | Jul 24, 2018
OpenAIS Project Completed after Successful Validation of IPv6 Based Lighting Controls
OpenAIS Project Completed after Successful Validation of IPv6 Based Lighting Controls The EU-Horizon 2020 co-funded OpenAIS [1] project, that successfully brought open IPv6-based control to the lighting world, has been completed as planned. A consortium of seven leading companies in lighting, IoT and building management and two knowledge institutes worked closely together for 3.5 years on IP-to-the-end-node connected lighting for professional buildings. Read more »
Event News | News-Spot | Jun 28, 2018
LpS 2018 Tackles the Disruption to the Lighting Industry Head-on with 5 Key Focal Points
LpS 2018 Tackles the Disruption to the Lighting Industry Head-on with 5 Key Focal Points The 8th international LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2018) will take place from 25 to 27 September in Bregenz, Austria. LpS continues to be aimed at technology experts from industry and research, as well as those who are curious about the latest developments in lighting technology. The carefully curated program for LpS2018, together with the co-hosted TiL2018, now forms a comprehensive overview of the current developments, hurdles and solutions for the disrupted and ever changing world of lighting. Read more »
Resources | Standardization | MD-SIG | Driver Modules | News-Spot | Mar 14, 2018
NFC Programming of LED Driver Parameters Is Standardized by MD-SIG
NFC Programming of LED Driver Parameters Is Standardized by MD-SIG Manufacturers of LED luminaires currently use a variety of programming methods to set the operating characteristics of LED drivers inside luminaires. Simplified and harmonized methods are desired to enable LED driver programming on automated or manual production lines. Read more »
Event News | News-Spot | Feb 27, 2018
LED Expo Thailand-2018: Hosted Buyer Program
LED Expo Thailand-2018: Hosted Buyer Program The 6th edition of LED Expo Thailand 2018, ASEAN’s largest International Exhibition on LED products & technology will be held from 10-12 May 2018 in Bangkok. The Expo would welcome more than 300 exhibitors, who would prep their latest to display on an expanse of over 20,000 sqm of exhibit area for about 15,000 international trade visitors at the Impact Exhibition and Convention Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. LED Expo Thailand 2018 would cater to the demand of evolution in the existing lighting technology. Read more »
Smart Lighting + IoT | News-Spot | Business | Company News | Nov 17, 2017
IoT Pioneer Gooee Launches in Europe
IoT Pioneer Gooee Launches in Europe ‘Data brain’ for smart building activity to revolutionise real estate market: Gooee, the ‘data brain’ for building activity, officially launched its ‘full stack’ ecosystem amongst its lighting and technology partners. Read more »
News-Spot | SciPiL | Sep 11, 2017
Luger Research Creates an Active Network to Secure the Future of Innovation in Lighting: SciPiL
Luger Research Creates an Active Network to Secure the Future of Innovation in Lighting: SciPiL Luger Research establishes the first scientific lighting partnership network for research experts and leaders in the lighting industry. The scientific partnership in lighting - SciPiL - has been created to form an active network that will strengthen and build the connections between universities, research laboratories and industry. The scientific partnership’s mission is to enable and secure the continued development of innovation in lighting technology. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 29, 2017
Seoul Semiconductor and Philips Enter Into a Cross-License Agreement
Today, Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. announced that they and Royal Philips Electronics have agreed to settle their pending legal cases and to enter into a cross-license agreement covering patents relating to specific LED technology areas. Under this arrangement, each party gains access to a substantial part of the other party's patent portfolios for various LED level technologies. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 29, 2017
Rubicon Technology Patent Allowed for In-situ Crystal Orientation
Rubicon Technology, Inc., a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, semiconductor, and optical industries, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed Rubicon’s patent application entitled, “Intelligent Machines and Process for Production of Monocrystalline Products with Goniometer Continual Feedback.” The patent covers Rubicon’s equipment and process developed to perform in-situ orientation of its sapphire crystals within the various fabrication tools used by the Company. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 29, 2017
Rejection of Osram’s Infringement Case vs. Dominant Issued by OLG Karlsruhe
The OLG Karlsruhe and the Landgericht Mannheim has confirmed that 10 of the claims against DOMINANT are not valid. As a result of the proceedings, the Federal Patent Court of Germany have also nullified 4 out of 7 Osram intellectual property rights and the European Patent Office has revoked one. Osram has been ordered to pay court fees. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 29, 2017
Power Integrations Reports Verdict in Patent Case Against Fairchild Semiconductor
Power Integrations announced a verdict reached in the company's 2008 patent-infringement lawsuit against Fairchild Semiconductor. After a three-week trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, a jury found that Fairchild infringes two Power Integrations patents. The infringement findings cover approximately 75 Fairchild products. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 29, 2017
Power Integrations Found to Infringe Fairchild Semiconductor Patent Rights & New Patent Lawsuit Announced
Fairchild Semiconductor announced that a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware found Power Integrations, Inc. infringes a Fairchild U.S. patent covering primary side regulation. At the same time Fairchild announced that it has filed new patent infringement claims against Power Integrations’ LinkSwitch-PH LED power conversion products. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 29, 2017
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Red Phosphors in Korea
On December 20th, 2011, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (“MCC” “; Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Yoshimitsu Kobayashi), has filed an infringement lawsuit in Seoul Central District Court against a USpany, Intematix Corporation and a Korean distributor, GVP, to enjoin them from importing and selling their phosphor products, claiming that they infringe a red phosphor patent in Korea (No. 816693) which is owned by MCC and National Institute of Material Science. Read more »
News-Spot | Resources | Intellectual Properties | Licensing | Apr 29, 2017
Lumitech Licenses Seoul Semiconductor for PI-LED Technology Applications
Lumitech Licenses Seoul Semiconductor for PI-LED Technology Applications Seoul Semiconductor, a global leading LED components manufacturer from Korea, and the Austrian company Lumitech, a leading manufacturer of components for Human Centric Lighting announced a licensing agreement for PI-LED technology patents. These patents govern the industrial trade mark rights of Lumitech’s PI-LED technology, which can implement tunable white from 2.500 to 7.000K with perfect colour rendering in a high and constant efficiency. Based on the license agreement, Seoul Semiconductor has the right to offer tunable white components based on the leading PI-LED technology, worldwide. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 29, 2017
Everlight Files Patent Infringement Suit against Nichia in US Court
Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. today filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nichia Corp. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The lawsuit seeks to enjoin Nichia from manufacturing, using, importing, offering for sale, or selling its infringing products in the United States It also seeks monetary damages. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 29, 2017
Everlight Fights Back Against Nichia in LED Patent Battle
After Everlight won a victory over Nichia for the patent administrative litigation (Patent No. 089036) in the Taiwan Supreme Administrative Court in October 2011, the Taiwan Supreme Court this November ruled in favor of Everlight again in the civil infringement case on Nichia’s patent in issue, which finalizes all cases regarding this patent. Furthermore, facing the situation that Nichia has affected fair competitive market mechanisms by filing patent infringement lawsuits and announcing press releases, Everlight decided to fight back. Today (12/1), Everlight brought a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court demanding that Nichia stop spreading false allegations and seeking an award of damages. Read more »
News-Spot | Resources | Intellectual Properties | Licensing | Apr 29, 2017
Cree Licenses Remote Phosphor Patent Portfolio to NNCrystal
Cree, Inc. announced it signed a non-exclusive worldwide license agreement with Hangzhou Najing Technologies, Ltd. (NNCrystal US Corp.) that provides access to Cree’s remote phosphor patent portfolio. The licensed family of patents addresses the fundamental combination of a blue LED and a remote phosphor element to produce white light, as well as the manufacture, design and placement of the optical element, enabling lighting manufacturers that use NNCrystal’s remote phosphor optical elements to manufacture remote phosphor-based LED lights without taking a separate remote phosphor patent license from Cree. Product time to market can be shortened by using Cree’s patented technology and by using NNCrystal’s licensed remote phosphor optical elements to access the technology. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Apr 29, 2017
Cree Licenses Pioneering Remote Phosphor Patents
Cree, Inc. announces it has granted five LED lighting manufacturers licenses to select Cree patents through its recently launched remote phosphor licensing program. By making fundamental remote phosphor patents available through license, Cree is further enabling LED lighting adoption, as Cree innovations facilitate the development of LED lights combining remote phosphor optical elements with blue LEDs. Read more »
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