Patents and Cross Licensing
With the ever increasing and complex nature of patents and licensing on LED products an important factor in the development of LED products is to ensure secutity of your product and intellectual property rights. In choosing Seoul Semiconductor as a supplier you are assured this security.
Seoul Semiconductor have a long term business alliance with Cree, Osram and Toyoda Gosei - the worlds top LED Chip manufacturers. Through these relationships they have secured strategic cooperation, supply and cross licencing agreements on issues such as White LED cross license and long term chip supply, White and housing patent cross licence agreements pertaining to white and visible LED technologies.
By 2007 Seoul Semiconductor had secured over 1443 patents which covered important areas such as:
- White LED Patents
- Acriche Patents
- UV Patents
- Design Patents
Manufacturing Patents
in addition a further 264 licences were aquired including :
- Phosphor License
- EPI / FAB License
SCCs R & D Strategy commits 10% of sales revenue to R & D and strategic cooperation.