Protection of Patent
Seoul Viosys Co., a Seoul Semiconductor affiliate manufacturing ultraviolet light-emitting-diodes (UV LED), has filed a lawsuit against an U.S.-based home electronics firm, claiming the latter violated Viosys' LED chip-making technology.
The company announced on August 9 that it filed a lawsuit with the Federal District Court of Southern New York on the 8th accusing P3 International of infringing its patented Violeds technology and MosClean UV LED mosquito trap device technology.
The patented technology at issue in the latest lawsuit includes technologies for the manufacturing and packaging of UV LED chips optimized to lure Zika virus mosquitoes. Seoul Viosys began to develop the UV LED mosquito trap under the guidance of professor Lee Dongkyu, an authority in Korea on mosquitoes, by focusing on the premise that mosquitoes are lured to UV rays. After much R&D, Seoul Viosys' Violeds technology was finally commercialized as MosClean, which is the best at luring mosquitoes using violeds technology.
Seoul Viosys President Kang Tae-yoong said, "Seoul Viosys put a lot of energy into R&D for the development of UV LED technologies in the past 15 years and finally developed the Violeds technology for the first time in the world. For the mass production of UV LED devices, we received approval from the U.S. Department of Defense and Foreigner Investment Committee, and increased production facilities in SETi, which is our subsidiary in the USA, to expand product production. We will continue to put more effort into protecting the Violeds technology and other patented products and mass producing its products at a cheaper price in order to become the most renowned UV LED chipmaker in the world.”