2008

May 27, 2008... Aachen, Germany- Aixtron AG today announced an order from Ubilux, Taiwan for six epitaxy reactors from the Aixtron group. Under the license obtained by Epistar, customers that have been using or will use LED chips made or to be made by Epistar will be free from any patent infringement assertion under the patents. After previous patent complaints filed elsewhere starting in 2002 , LED makers including Germany's Osram Opto Semiconductors and Japan's Nichia and Toyoda Gossei have also previously settled with Rothschild over alleged patent infringement. Also, on 10 March, an action that had been brought before the US District Court for the Southern District of New York by Rothschild was settled by LED maker Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA, giving the firm a non-exclusive license. A separate case against LED maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA is still pending. There is a general rule that LED itself can take up to 50% of the product cost. The product price you are paying generally gives an indication of what type of LED and brand the product is using. However, perhaps Ms. May's most glamorous neighbors to date are George and Amal Clooney—the A-list actor and his lawyer wife bought a nine-bedroom mansion in Sonning around two years ago.

The license agreement follows an investigation instituted on 20 March by the US International Trade Commission based a complaint (‘In the matter of Short-Wave Light Emitting Diodes') filed by Rothschild alleging infringement by 34 firms of patent 5,252,499 (covering a method of producing gallium nitride-based semiconductors for LEDs and laser diodes emitting in the blue, green, violet and ultraviolet end of the spectrum). The complaint sought to bar importation into the USA of a wide range of consumer electronics products incorporating infringing devices. These include DVD players using Sony's Blu-ray format, Motorola Razr phones and Hitachi camcorders, as well as instrument panels, billboards, traffic lights and data storage devices. Other firms cited include Blu-ray DVD player makers Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (Panasonic), LG Electronics Inc and Samsung Group and HD DVD player manufacturer Toshiba Corp, as well as Nokia Corp , Sony Ericsson Mobile, Pioneer, Sanyo Electric Co, and Sharp Electronics.

Aixtron's state-of-the-art mass production systems will provide the foundation for the Ubilux business plan that is focussed on the manufacture of ultra-high brightness (UHB) LEDs using compound semiconductors including AlInGaP for red, yellow as well as GaN for blue and green LEDs. Different silk screen pattern will be used for different size of lightbox. We do not use one silk screen pattern for all size. This is to ensure the distribution of light is homogenous. All our LED lightboxes, a.k.a LED advertising panels, are illuminated using high-bright white LEDs which are attached to the edge of the clear acrylic panel; giving an even light distribution from edge-to-edge. Because of the low LED power consumption, substantial energy savings is achieved in relation to traditional lighting techniques. LED chip-maker Epistar Corp of Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan says it has obtained a worldwide license from Dr Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, professor emerita of Materials Science and Engineering at Columbia University, for her US Patents 5,252,499 ('Wide Band-Gap Semiconductors Having Low Bipolar Resistivity and Method of Formation', issued in 1993) and 4,904,618 (‘Process for Doping Crystals of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors', issued in 1990), as well as their foreign counterpart patents.

Other attractive features include a large degree of privacy that makes it difficult for paparazzi to gain access to the town's famed residents, as well as the village's proximity to bustling town of Henley-on-Thames and sought-after schools including the Blue Coat School, for boys; Shiplake College and Queen Anne's School, for girls. Ubilux is Taiwan's newest optoelectronics start-up company. It has a very knowledgeable senior team which is headed by Dr. Henry Chen, President, who comments: My colleagues and I on the Ubilux board together with our investors have ambitious plans for success in LEDs. We have our sights set on the booming market for solid-state backlighting applications including digital cameras, mobile phones, LCD monitors and televisions. Aixtron has the best 廣告招牌 reputation for equipment, service and process know-how so we chose to equip ourselves with multiple Aixtron systems knowing that together we will proceed rapidly to production". Ubilux recently had held the groundbreaking ceremony for its new LED production fab which is planned to be operational within six months.

After consulting with different retailers, lightbox lux level of 2,000 lux is a good standard. Our lux level is at the top end of the market. More LEDs are needed in order to achieve 2,000 lux. Brightness is adjustable. Last month, licenses were also obtained by LED makers Everlight Electronics Co Ltd of Taipei, Taiwan and Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd of Korea. We focus on quality. Our all goods are inspected by our project engineers before delivery. It's always been a very characterful riverside town, but in the last few years there have been some very high-profile purchases," said Matthew Mannall, a partner at Knight Frank, the global property consultancy. Another famous resident is Uri Geller, the eccentric Israeli-born illusionist, who has been lived in Sonning since the 1980s, but he is trying to sell his £15 million mansion ($19.8 million) —which was modeled on the White House— and move back to Tel Aviv. Even singer Taylor Swift and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly considered buying another home in the area.