{"id":19324,"date":"2022-05-10T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kr.everlight.com\/?p=19324"},"modified":"2022-05-10T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:44:28","slug":"pr_20220510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kr.everlight.com\/pr_20220510\/","title":{"rendered":"European Patent Office has decided Nichia\u2019s Patent is invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Shulin District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, May 10, 2022 \u2013 Everlight has recently received the judgment from Boards of Appeal of European Patent Office (\u201cthe EPO\u201d), the EPO has affirmed Everlight\u2019s appeal request for patent invalidation and decided that Nichia\u2019s European patent EP2197053 is invalid. \u00a0Everlight affirmed the result of this judgment and won the victory.
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Everlight has filed invalidation trial procedures against Nichia \u2018s YAG patents in Europe, United States, Australia, China and Taiwan. Everlight has received these winning judgements:<\/strong><\/p>

  1. Boards of Appeal of European Patent Office has decided that Nichia\u2019s European patent EP2197053 is invalid.<\/strong><\/li>
  2. Supreme Court of United States has decided that the asserted claims of Nichia\u2019s United States patents US5998925 and US7531960 are invalid.<\/strong><\/li>
  3. High Court of Australia has decided that the asserted claims of Nichia\u2019s Australia patent AU720234 are invalid.<\/strong><\/li>
  4. China Supreme People’s Court has decided that Nichia\u2019s China patent CN200610095837.4 is invalid.<\/strong><\/li>
  5. Taiwan Supreme Administrative Court has decided that Nichia\u2019s Taiwan patent TW383508 is invalid.<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>

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