China's LED companies account for a relatively small proportion of invention patents

In recent years, the demand for LED applications has continued to grow, and domestic industry development has maintained a good momentum. Since October 1, 2014, China will ban the import and sale of incandescent lamps for general lighting of 60 watts and above; by October 1, 2016, China will completely stop production and disable incandescent lamps. With the implementation of the policy, the penetration rate of downstream lighting products will continue to increase in the future, and the good development of the industry in the next two years is expected to continue.

With the rapid development of the industry, some enterprises have entered the international market one after another, and China has become an important production base for global LED lighting products. In 2013, the export volume of LED lighting products in China reached US$6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 70%. From January to June this year, the export value of lighting products was US$17.67 billion, of which LED lighting products accounted for more than 20% of exports. However, the export advantages of China's LED lighting products are mainly due to lower product prices, and the high-end market share is still small. The barriers to technology patents have become a major obstacle to the development of domestic enterprises.

Global surge in filings giant monopoly patents <br> <br> By the end of 2013, global patent applications in the field of semiconductor lighting a total of about 190,000.

As of the end of 2013, there were approximately 190,000 patent applications in the global semiconductor lighting field. The earliest patents appeared in the 1960s. Since 2000, the number of patent applications has increased rapidly, and the number of patent applications has increased sharply in 2008 and 2009. This also indicates that the technological innovation of semiconductor lighting is in a rapid development stage.

According to industry habits, the LED industry is generally divided into LED substrates, epitaxial chips, packaging and applications. In the entire LED industry, the number of patents in the package is the most (70004), accounting for 37% of the total number of patents; the second is the application part of 62,904, accounting for 33% of all patents; the third is the epitaxial chip, accounting for about 15% .

At present, the technology patents of the global LED industry are basically monopolized by several industry giants in Japan, the United States, South Korea and Germany. According to the company's application, the top 10 global patent applications ranked Panasonic, Sharp, Samsung, Toshiba, Canon, Sony, Kyocera, Roma, Toyota Synthetic and Nichia, among which 9 companies accounted for 9 companies. There is also a Korean company, indicating that Japan has an absolute advantage in the LED field. The patent applications of these 10 companies accounted for 16% of the global patent applications.

The industry-recognized key companies that master the core technology of LED are Japan's Toyota Synthetic and Nichia Chemical, while the top three Panasonic, Sharp and Samsung companies are mainly engaged in electronics and display, to some extent, LED application technology. It is currently in a period of rapid development. In recent years, with the growth of LED applications, the production of epitaxial chips has also developed rapidly, and the number of patent applications has increased rapidly.

Concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of domestic patent for the invention patent short board <br> <br> by the end of 2013, mainland China's total field of LED patents 36,595, mainly in packaging, application and driver side.

By the end of 2013, China's mainland LED field had applied for a total of 36,595 patents. China's patents are mainly concentrated in packaging, application and driving, which account for 42%, 41% and 8.5% of all patent applications, respectively, while epitaxial chips and substrates are relatively few. Compared with the global situation, especially in the case of epitaxial chips, patents account for only 7% of the total number of patents.

From the perspective of patent types, in the patents submitted by Chinese enterprises, utility model and design patent applications account for a relatively large proportion, while invention patents are short-board. In the invention patents, the fields of upstream chips and raw materials in the industrial chain are even more lacking. In recent years, in the LED industry research and development and production, Chinese companies have also applied for a large number of patents, but these patents are mainly distributed in the light source packaging, backlight display, lighting design, etc., concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the LED industry chain, and practical The patents for new and design are dominant, while the proportion of invention patents is significantly smaller.

The reasons for this situation are many. On the one hand, LED technology originated in foreign countries. Foreign leading companies have carried out a large number of patent layouts in core technologies such as phosphors and chips, and the giants have formed a interest alliance through cross-authorization. It is more difficult for the latecomers to break through. On the other hand, most of the domestic LED enterprises are small and medium-sized enterprises, lacking awareness of intellectual property protection. The products are mainly low-end and medium-sized, and the homogenization competition is serious. The price war is the main competitive means. As a result of vicious competition, the price of the product has dropped rapidly, which has also damped the enthusiasm of the company. Some domestic lighting companies prefer to force foreign markets and are not willing to participate in domestic melee. Due to the lack of core technology patents, Chinese companies have to purchase a large number of foreign chip products in overseas trade.

Despite this, in foreign trade, intellectual property risks cannot be evaded. Some foreign institutions or groups have used intellectual property rights as an important means of trade protection. For example, the “337 investigation” initiated by the US International Trade Commission on Chinese LED companies is the use of knowledge. Property disputes, one of the most important means of preventing or restricting the entry of Chinese companies or their products into the US market. Once the US International Trade Commission issues a general or limited exclusion order for the products involved, the products produced by the relevant companies will not be exported to the US market.

Strengthen independent research guide patent portfolio <br> <br> future China LED companies want to enter the high-end products, the consolidation of market share, strengthen independent research and development is insurmountable link.

In the future, Chinese LED companies will enter the high-end product field and consolidate their market share. Strengthening independent research and development is an insurmountable link. How to break through the technical difficulties and patent barriers in the industry has become a key issue that domestic enterprises have to face.

First of all, domestic enterprises must have intellectual property awareness and be based on innovation and development. With the development of domestic industry, China's intellectual property laws and regulations have been gradually improved, and the demographic dividend has gradually disappeared. In the past, the extensive competition model of imitating the price of human resources will not be sustainable.

Enterprises need intellectual property awareness from the very beginning. In addition to relying on independent research and development, they take an innovative development path, do not infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, and use intellectual property as a means of self-protection. At present, the tenth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress in China will review the proposal of setting up a special intellectual property court in Beijing and Shanghai. In the future, the legal environment for domestic intellectual property rights will be more optimized, and intellectual property rights will become an important part of the future development of enterprises.

Second, do a good job in the research, analysis and layout of intellectual property, and strive to win the first opportunity. Relying on the government or industry alliance, we will guide the domestic patent layout at the macro level of the industry. Relying on specialized intellectual property institutions to search and analyze patents at home and abroad, sort out the patents of major exporting countries, and then help companies to specifically design and further patent supplements.

The strength and scope of the patent structure are relatively limited, relying solely on the individual management of the company itself. It is necessary to integrate domestic resources, strengthen the linkage between upstream and downstream industries, and enhance the patent management and utilization capabilities of LED enterprises in order to timely respond to patent risks at home and abroad and promote the coordinated development of the LED industry.

Third, encourage mergers and acquisitions between enterprises to become bigger and stronger. After several years of development, China's LED industry has produced a number of large enterprises with certain international influence. In recent years, the integration trend of the domestic LED industry is obvious, and the superior resources are gathered by the industry giants. Through mergers and acquisitions and mutual shareholdings, domestic enterprises can quickly break down the technology and patent barriers and achieve industrial breakthroughs.

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