Taiwanese and foreign applicants applied for 74,652 patents in 2019, increasing 1.68% on year, according to Intellectual Property Office (IPO) under Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Wistron chairman Simon Lin expects the company's results in 2020 to be better than in 2019 because business re-organization last year brought limited change to the company's revenue...

Innolux, a LCD panel manufacturing arm of Foxconn Electronics, has filed another complaint in China against Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics, accusing the local company of allegedly...

Japan-based Nichia has disclosed it has filed charges with a court in the Judicial District of the Capital of the State of Sao Paulo against Karimex Componentes Eletronicos and Arrow...

TSMC and Globalfoundries (GF) have announced they are dismissing all litigation between them as well as those that involve any of their customers. The companies said they have agreed...

Taiwan-based Integrated Service Technology (iST) has maintained it has injected a lot of manpower and resources into in-house development of technologies while sticking to its established...

Wafer reclaim and thinning specialist Phoenix Silicon International (PSI) has filed a lawsuit with the Taiwan IP court against Integrated Service Technology (iST) accusing it of infringing...

The unexpected patent infringement lawsuits recently filed by Globalfoundries (GF) with courts in the US and Germany against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is most...

Globalfoundries (GF) announced on August 26 it has filed multiple lawsuits in the US and Germany alleging that semiconductor manufacturing technologies used by Taiwan Semiconductor...

Taiwan-based and foreign applicants applied for 35,534 patents during first-half 2019, increasing 0.68% on year, according to Intellectual Property Office (IPO).

Japan-based Nichia has announced that the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has invalidated ZL20071016547.X, a China patent concerning LED flip-chip technology...

LED packaging service provider Advanced Optoelectronic Technology (AOT) has disclosed it aims to obtain licenses for using US-based Cree's patents and trademark, according to an announcement...

Taiwan-based Egis Technology (Egistec), which specializes in the design and development of fingerprint sensors, has been accused by China's Goodix Technology of infringing Goodix'...

Flat panel maker Innolux has announced that it has won a patent lawsuit against China-based rival Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology, citing a ruling released by an intermediate...

Taiwan-based and foreign applicants applied for 17,243 patents in total during first-quarter 2019, decreasing 2.44% on year, according to Intellectual Property Office (IPO).

Nichia has indicated that the District Court of Dusseldorf in Germany in late March 2019 decided that its YAG patent, EP 0 936 682 (German patent code DE 697 02 929), was infringed...

Gudeng Precision Industrial is facing a fine after the Taiwan IP court found that its products violated Entegris' reticle pod patent.

An Australian federal court has dismissed an appeal filed by Japan-based Nichia accusing Arrow Electronics Australia of infringing its LED patent No. 720234, equivalent to upholding...

Switzerland-based Meyer Burger Technology has rallied support for LONGi Green Energy Technology after the China-based firm was accused by Hanwha Q Cells of infringing the Korean vendor's...

South Korea-based solar cell and PV module maker Hanwha Q Cells has filed a charge with the Federal Court of Australia against China-based fellow makers Jinko Solar and LONGi Green...

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai) chairman Terry Gou has responded to a patent infringement lawsuit filed against his compoanny by Microsoft, saying as a contract manufacturer instead...

South Korea-based PV maker Hanwha Q Cells has filed charges in the US and Germany against threel China companies, accusing them of infringing on its patents regarding passivation...

First-tier China-based PV makers who are eyeing overseas markets are likely to adopt PV silver paste free from patent issues to avoid litigation over their exports, according to industry...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) applied for 944 patents in 2018, the most among all Taiwan-based applicants consisting of enterprises, research organizations and...

The Beijing Intellectual Property Court has ruled Taiwan-based LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics' subsidiary in China and its distributors have infringed Nichia's...