LG Loses First Round in U.S. LED Fight With Siemens Unit Osram

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LEDs, a type of semiconductor, are transforming how light is provided in cars, electronics, utilities and homes as they replace incandescent bulbs, fluorescent tubes and high-pressure sodium lights.Osram, the world's second-largest maker of lighting products behind Royal Philips NV, is trying to curb LG's imports into the U.S. of televisions, computer monitors and lights that use LEDs. Its inventions cover ways to make white LEDs, which can have more uses than the traditional red, blue or green diodes.The patent found to be infringed relates to a semiconductor that emits a blue light and has a layer to convert that light to white. The patent Shaw said wasn't infringed is for a way to make the components so they are less likely to fail from exposure to heat, such as in the manufacturing process.
In a separate case, Munich-based Osram is pursuing other patent claims against Seoul-based LG and Samsung Electronics Co. in a trial that's under way before a different agency judge.LG and Samsung have each filed patent-infringement cases against Osram at the ITC, with trials scheduled for August.Siemens, Europe's biggest engineering company, is planning to spin off Osram, which had sales of 5.03 billion euros in the year through Sept. 30, so the unit can better expand in the LED market. Munich-based Siemens is expecting the LED market to increase to 9.8 billion euros ($12 billion) by 2013 and the total lighting market to grow 44 percent by 2016. Royal Philips has projected that LEDs will grow to about 45 percent of the lighting market by 2015.The LG case is In the Matter of Certain Light-Emitting Diodes, and the Samsung ITC case is In the Matter of Light-Emitting Diodes and Products Containing Same, and both U.S. International Trade Commission (Washington).