晶元光电（晶电）于美国时间2018/5/7在美国加利福尼亚中区联邦地方法院对V-TAC USA Corp. (“V-TAC”)提出专利侵权诉讼。晶电在诉状中指出V-TAC产品侵犯七件晶电专利，并申请法院核发禁制令以禁止V-TAC继续销售侵权之产品。

晶电在诉状中指出V-TAC之LED灯丝灯泡，例如，型号为215之VT-5115D灯泡、型号为200之VT-5100D灯泡以及型号为283之VT-5133灯泡，侵犯多篇晶电美国专利，包括但不限于专利号6,346,771，发明名称「高功率发光二极管照明灯」、专利号7,489,068，发明名称「发光装置」、专利号7,560,738，发明名称「具有黏结层之发光二极管数组」、专利号8,240,881，发明名称「发光组件之封装结构」、专利号9,065,022，发明名称「发光装置」、专利号9,488,321，发明名称「具有位于透明基板上之斜置型发光组件之照明装置」、专利号9,664,340，发明名称「发光装置」。

创新是晶电企业价值的核心，因此保护晶电在其研究开发成果的投资对晶电及其合作伙伴和客户来说至关重要。晶电每年均注入大量资源致力于最先进LED技术的研究开发，已获证及申请中的专利合计超过4,000件。晶电的智慧财产奠定了LED灯丝（灯）及/或LED灯的技术基础并嘉惠世界上各种相关产品。晶电因持续在研发上进行投资，才能为不断成长的全球LED用户提供最先进的产品及解决方案。截至2018年5月，已有Supertrend，QLS和Kaistar之灯丝灯产品取得晶电授权。

关于晶电

在固态照明技术普及之前，数字对LED产业发展具有高度热忱及远见的人士创立了晶元光电。其不凡的学识及洞见造就了晶电的尖端产品及工程创新，并积累了大量的专业能力，使今日的晶元光电成为LED及未来半导体技术的全球领导供货商，在引领全球进入固态照明时代上扮演着举足轻重的角色。晶元光电的足迹遍及北美、欧洲以及亚洲，其革命性的LED产品及解决方案广为世界的知名品牌所采用，并应用于手机、笔记本电脑、电视、户外显示屏、汽车及照明等产品。晶电将持续致力于固态照明技术以造福人类生活。

Epistar Files U.S. Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against V-TAC USA

On May 7, 2018, Epistar Corporation, a leading innovator and manufacturer of LED solid-state lighting technologies, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against V-TAC USA Corp. (“V-TAC”) in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on May 7, 2018. The complaint asserts that V-TAC’s LED filament bulbs infringe seven Epistar patents and seeks injunctive relief to halt further sale of the infringing products.

Innovation is at the heart of Epistar’s business, and the protection of Epistar’s investment in its research and development efforts is of the utmost importance to Epistar as well as its partners and customers. To date, Epistar has invested over millions of dollars in the research and development of cutting-edge LED technologies resulting in over 4000 issued patents and pending patent applications. Epistar’s intellectual property has laid the foundation for LED filament (bulb) and/or LED bulb technologies, empowering state-of-the-art products for ever-growing consumers worldwide. As of May 8, 2018, Epistar’s licensees include Supertrend, QLS, and Kaistar, whose LED filament bulb are licensed.

Epistar’s complaint alleges that the V-TAC’s LED filament bulbs such as the VT-5115D Light Bulbs (P/N: 215), VT-5100D Light Bulbs (P/N: 200) and VT-5133 Light Bulbs (P/N: 283)infringe one or more claims of Epistar’s U.S. Patent Numbers 6,346,771, titled “High Power LED Lamp,” 7,489,068, titled “Light Emitting Device,” 7,560,738, titled “Light-Emitting Diode Array Having An Adhesive Layer,” 8,240,881, titled “Light Emitting Device Package,” 9,065,022, titled, “Light Emitting Apparatus,” 9,488,321, titled “Illumination Device With Inclined Light Emitting Element Disposed On A Transparent Substrate,” and 9,664,340, titled “Light Emitting Device.”