Everlight Electronics filed patent infringement lawsuit against Raider Electric and Liang Rei Shin in Taiwan

　Everlight Electronics, Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Everlight”) issued a press release on November 28, 2022 to announce that they filed a patent infringement lawsuit with the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court against Raider Electric Corp. (hereinafter referred to as “Raider”) and Liang Rei Shin Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Liang Rei Shin”) for the two companies’ infringement upon Everlight’s No. TWI665406, No. TWI644055 and No. TWI553264 patents (hereinafter referred to as “Everlight’s patents”) by the LED products, including bulbs, tubes, ceiling lamps, and recessed lights made and sold by Raider and Liang Rei Shin (hereinafter referred to as the “infringing products”).  In the patent infringement lawsuit, Everlight claimed for damages against Raider and Liang Rei Shin in an amount of TWD100 million and demanded that the two companies should immediately stop making, importing, and selling the infringing products.  

 

　As alleged by Everlight, Raider’s “Dr. Bright” LED product and Liang Rei Shin’s “LiGHTNESS” LED product infringed upon Everlight’s patents, which are related to the LED leadframe packaging technology and structure thereof that can enhance the production speed and yield of light emitting devices and also improve the electrical conductivity and thermal dissipation of light emitting devices.  The technology can be applied not only to lighting LED products but also to backlighting and automotive LEDs.  

 

　On November 7, 2022, Everlight initiated another patent infringement action with the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court against Test Rite Retail Co., Ltd., Jan Cheng Lighting Co., Ltd., and China Electric, alleging that the bulbs, tubes, and ceiling lamps sold by the three companies infringed upon Everlight’s Taiwanese patents, for which Everlight thus claimed for damages in an amount of TWD300 million against the three companies and demanded that three companies should immediately stop making, importing, and selling the aforesaid infringing products.  Subsequently, Everlight withdrew the patent infringement action against Test Rite Retail Co., Ltd. and China Electric on November 21, 2022 and December 30, 2022, respectively.  (Released 2022.11.28) 

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