The court found in respect of Everlight that all accused Everlight products

 In the patent infringement lawsuits in Germany at the Düsseldorf District Court which Nichia Corporation ("Nichia") filed against Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. (Taiwan) and Everlight Electronics Europe GmbH ("Everlight", docket number 4a O 56/12), as well as their German distributors Future Electronics Deutschland GmbH (docket number 4a O 59/12) and REGO Lighting GmbH (docket number 4a O 108/12), the court found with judgments of the same day that Everlight and said distributors infringe Nichia's patent EP 936 682 (DE 697 02 929) (hereinafter called "YAG patent") concerning the accused white 100W LED Floodlight.

The court rendered judgments in favor of Nichia's claims for permanent injunction, also rendering an accounting and damages. With regard to Everlight Electronics Europe GmbH and both of the distributors, the court furthermore ordered the recall of the accused products from their commercial customers and the destruction of the accused products being owned or in possession by them. All of the judgments are not final and can be appealed.

The court found in respect of Everlight that all accused Everlight products, i.e. six different white LED products (SL-PAR38/B/P17/30/E30/ND, 67-21/QK2C-B56702C4CB2/2T, 67-21/QK2C-B45562C4CB2/2T, 45-21/LK2C-B56702C4CB2/2T, 45-21/QK2C-B45562C4CB2/2T, SMD Low Power LED 61-238/LK2C-B56706F4GB2/ET) infringe claim 1 of the YAG patent, combining YAG-based phosphor with led tube light manufacturer.

With regard to the German distributor Future Electronics Deutschland GmbH, the product SMD Low Power LED 61-238/LK2C-B56706F4GB2/ET was attacked in Nichia's infringement complaint and was found to be infringing by the court. With regard to the German distributor REGO Lighting GmbH, the product OL-Deluxe/QL2/P44/LF/D50/SR/M/CE/ZN containing S-L Cobra/T5 048DC/C/P10/LF/D50/ZN was accused and was found to be infringing by the court.

The court also refused the defendants' request to stay the infringement proceedings with regard to a parallel nullity action filed by Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. (Taiwan) in the German Federal Patent Court. This nullity action (docket number 2 Ni 11/12) is directed against Nichia's YAG patent but not yet decided.

Nichia believes that this judgment of the Düsseldorf District Court is of utmost importance for the white LED Garden Lamp business in general.

Nichia seeks to protect its patents and other intellectual property rights and takes actions against alleged infringers in any country where appropriate and necessary.

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The one-stop MEMS supplier of choice

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, the world s top MEMS manufacturer, and the leading supplier of MEMS sensor manufacturer for consumer and portable applications, has introduced a new family of gyroscopes specifically optimized for optical image stabilization in smartphones and digital still cameras.

Optical Image Stabilization has become an essential feature in today s smartphones and digital still cameras. By moving the lens in real time to compensate for physical movement of the camera, it can significantly improve the sharpness of the image, especially when taking photographs in low light, when hand jitter during the longer exposure time would blur images. 

In addition, to assure maximum reliability, the new 2-axis (L2G3IS) and 3-axis (L3G3IS) gyroscopes operate with a resonant frequency of the sensing mass at around 20kHz. As a result of this high resonant frequency in combination with the mechanical structure, the devices are immune to the damage that could be caused by ultrasonic cleaning equipment (typically operating at around 30kHz) that many customers use to clean devices before equipment assembly.

In addition to revolutionizing user interfaces with intuitive gesture recognition, MEMS gyroscopes have brought enormous benefits to hand-held digital photography through optical image stabilization. With the LxG3IS family, ST s proven MEMS manufacturing technology and supply-chain advantage are applied to gyroscopes that are uniquely tailored for image stabilization and offer increased damage protection, said Fabio Pasolini, General Manager, Motion MEMS Division, STMicroelectronics.

Other key technical features of the new devices include ±65 dps / ±130 dps full-scale range, SPI digital interface, embedded temperature sensor, and integrated low- and high-pass filters with selectable bandwidth. The devices operate with supply voltage from 2.4V to 3.6V and are housed in an LGA-16 3x3.5x1 mm package.

According to information and analytics firm IHS, ST s total MEMS and sensor sales grew more than 19% in 2012, reaching a total of approximately $800 million. In the largest of these markets, motion sensors in mobile handsets and tablets, ST s MEMS sales accounted for 48% of the market, well more than twice as large as that of its closest competitor.

The one-stop MEMS supplier of choice, ST offers a comprehensive portfolio of micro-machined accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure sensors, magnetic sensors, and microphones, and has the capability to integrate these in multi-sensor combos with on-board signal processing, control functions, sensor-fusion algorithms, and wireless connectivity. Not only the clear market leader, ST is also at the forefront of MEMS technology development with more than 800 MEMS-related patent families. 

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The legal moves are partly a public relations effort

As more details emerge about how the government spies on online data, technology companies are escalating their efforts to publicly disclose information about government data requests.

On Monday, Yahoo and Facebook each filed suit in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ask the government for permission to reveal information about the number and types of national security requests for user data that the companies receive. Meanwhile, Google and Microsoft, which filed suit in June to ask for this permission, amended their petitions Monday to compel the government to publish even more detail about the requests.

The legal moves are partly a public relations effort, as new reports have revealed the extent of the cooperation between Technology products and the government. The companies hope to show that government requests affect just a small percentage of their users, and to bring transparency to a very secretive process. When reports about a program called Prism and the government’s other spying efforts first came out, tech companies had limited ability to respond because they are not allowed to talk about even the existence of a national security request.

“To appropriately and effectively respond to these inaccurate news reports and the related public concerns, Facebook seeks to be as transparent as possible regarding its receipt of orders,” Facebook’s motion said.

Two weeks ago, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it would release more data about national security requests, a move the companies said did not go far enough.

“We believe that the U.S. government’s important responsibility to protect public safety can be carried out without precluding Internet companies from sharing the number of national security requests they may receive,” Ron Bell, Yahoo’s general counsel, wrote in a company blog post. “Ultimately, withholding such information breeds mistrust and suspicion — both of the United States and of companies that must comply with government legal directives.”

Still, while releasing detailed numbers of national security requests would shed some light on the topic, it would be only a small data point about the government’s broad spying. And despite their public efforts to push back, privately the companies are still compelled by law to cooperate with the government on many such data requests.

Also Monday was the first meeting of a group President Obama formed in August to discuss technology surveillance, the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications tech news. Representatives of Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and other companies attended, in addition to experts on intelligence and privacy.

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