According to the press release of Everlight, Everlight filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the District Court of Mannheim in Germany on May 4, 2017 and June 3, 2017, respectively, suing Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and its Neumuller dealer compromised Everlight patented technology.
Everlight asked the court to issue an injunction against the infringing products of Seoul Semiconductor and its distributor Neumuller, including the prohibition of trafficking, manufacture, import and export, recovery, destruction of inventories and damages.
In response to the recently announced litigation related news by Seoul Semiconductor, Everlight said it does not affect the current patent infringement lawsuits claimed by Germany and the United States. Everlight believes the patent is valid and will fully defend the rights and interests of its customers and shareholders. For infringement, Continue to bring legal action, must not be idle.
Seoul Semiconductor released a press release on the 20th that the United Kingdom Patent Court has declared Evergreen's patent EP (UK) 1169735 invalid and ordered Everlight to pay about $ 1 million (about NT $ 29,190,000) in litigation costs; the patent with the LED Thermal package structure related.