LED Technology - Patent landscape with development timeline.

1. Patent HoldersThe LED Chronicle
1907
H J Round discovered
electroluminescence using
SiC and a cats whisker. He
was one of the early
pioneers of radio and
received 117 patents.
1920
Oleg V. Losev studied the
phenomenon of LEDs in
radio sets. His first work
on LEDs involved a report
on light emission from
SiC.
James R. Biard and Gary
Pittman worked together
and developed the
Infrared LED at Texas
Instruments.
Nick Holonyak Jr.
developed the red LED,
the first LED of visible
light at GE. He used
GaAsP on GaAs substrate.
M. George Craford creates
the first yellow LED using
GaAsP at Monsanto.
Herbert Maruska and
Jacques Pankove
developed the violet LED
using Mg-doped GaN
films.
Shuji Nakamura developed
the world’s first bright blue
LED using GaN
Thomas P. Pearsell
developed special high
brightness LEDs for fiber
optic use.
Ching Tang and Steven
Van Slyke developed the
first OLED at Kodak.
Chihaya Adachi invented
electron transport
material and constructed
a double heterostructure
OLED.
Jeremy Burroughes,
Richard Friend and Donal
Bradley together
discovered polymer based
OLEDs.Teruo Tohma developed
the first commercial OLED
displays using PMOLED
technology at Pioneer.
1961
1962
1972
1976
1979
1987
1988
1990
1997
1998
Mark E. Thomson and
Stephen Forrest developed
the first phosphorescent
OLED by using an emissive
layer of Platinum(II)
octaethylporphyrin.
Zoltan Bay and Gyorgy
Szigeti patented a SiC
electroluminescent lighting
device, considered to be
the predecessor of
modern-day LED.
1958
1952
Kurt Lehovec, applied for
SiC visible lights LED
Rubin Braunstein and Egon
Loebner patented a green
LED made from a lead
antimonde/ Germanium
alloy.
1964
IBM used LEDs on circuit
boards in an early
mainframe computer.
1968
HP integrated LEDs into
early hand-held
calculators.
1971
Jacques Pankove
pioneered first blue LEDs.
2006
Nakamura received the
Millennium Technology
Prize for development of a
white LED.
1939
2007
The Italian village of
Torraca became the first
township to convert its
entire illumination system
to LED.
2008
Audi – the first car to use
fully LED headlamps.
LED Overall
Equivalents
9,937
8,132
6,625
4,641
4,507
4,076
3,799
3,328
3,132
2,643
LED Lighting
2,419
1,372
1,058
988
839
817
727
693
584
571
Equivalents
LED Lighting & Display
1,062
7,189
771 4,039
2,512
1,446
1,146
2,569
608
2,904
527
2,516
254
2,612
237
2,360
515
1,831
822
1,383
Equivalents Equivalents
LED – Commercial Application
Filing Trends
LED Patent Type
Equivalents
MEDICAL
114
26
24
14
13
10
10
10
9
9
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
4,692 5,452 6,495 7,497 7,947
12,394 14,217
16,597 18,201 19,669
23,524
29,099
36,490
41,501
37,236
LED Technology
LED Lighting LED Lighting & Display LED Overall
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
77 96 100 93 117
395 406 473 512 590
1,851
2,195
2,483
2,738 2,807
LED - Commercial Application
LED Medical LED Automotive LED General Lighting
Geographical Filing Trends
1,09,839
72,953
69,176
36,660
24,342
LED Overall
31,874
11,813
11,313
6,668
5,249
LED Lighting
Circuitry
Thermal Control
Materials
Manufacturing
and Packaging
1,971 1,080 695 431
243 299 79 38
150 78 69 361
440 330 453 534
(Number of Applications)
Market Data
Europe, 23%
China, 21%
USA, 19%
Japan, 9%
Asia Pacific, 13%
Latin America, 8%
Africa & Middle East,
7%
Residential
Office
Industrial
Shop
Hospitality
Outdoor
Architectural
0
15
30
45
60
75
90
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Residential
Office
Industrial
Shop
Hospitality
Outdoor
Architectural
LED Lighting – Global Market Share (2014)
Top Packaged LED Suppliers – Ranking By Revenue
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
2012
2013
2014(Est.)
Top LED Vendors (Die & Package) By Revenue (USD mn)
Sources:
http://www.worldofleds.co.uk/history-of-leds.htm
http://www.edisontechcenter.org/LED.html
Philips – http://goo.gl/3X0TVD , http://goo.gl/AE5otx
Cree – http://goo.gl/o49P0E , http://goo.gl/Cu0whT
Global OLED Tech – http://goo.gl/db1u2o , http://goo.gl/y2Qo4e
Varroc Engg Pvt Ltd – http://goo.gl/ySQmOi
Universal Display Corp – http://goo.gl/9rfUkS
Intellectual Keystone Tech – http://goo.gl/y3qV0A
http://bizled.co.in/world-led-lighting-market-will-touch-25-7-billion-in-2014/
McKinsey & Company, “Lighting the way: Perspectives on the global lighting market”.
http://goo.gl/JBvxrh , http://goo.gl/NbWbwk , http://goo.gl/aLhY6I , http://optics.org/news/5/6/36
https://www.academia.edu/7303614/Global_and_China_LED_Industry_Report_2013-2014
https://www.iconfinder.com/
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Patent Acquisitions
GENERAL LIGHTING
Equivalents
FUZHUN PRECISION
816
652
576
573
400
367
242
240
175
162
AUTOMOTIVE
Equivalents
538
241
226
208
205
151
148
89
84
79
IP Type
Publication Type
DesignUtility ModelUtility Invention
3,19,563
Others
57,728 21 87
GrantApplication Others
2,30,946 74,505 71,955
LED Market Share By Application In %
LED Lighting Sub-technologies
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LED Technology – Landscape
Acquirer Acquiree Deal Amount US Transactions
Tracked from
Relecura
(Execution Year)
Color Kinetics
TIR Technology
Agilent Technologies
Lumileds
Philips
$791 mn
$71 mn
$1.7 bn
$835 mn on 47%
stake
110 (2007)
57 (2009)
36 (2000)
161 (2011)
CREE LED Lighting Fixture, Inc.
$77 mn in cash
& stock
transaction +
$26.4 mn over 3
year period
37 (2008)
Global OLED
Technologies
$100 mn 563 (2010)
Varroc Engg Pvt.
Ltd.
$72 mn 33 (2012)
Universal Display
Corp.
$105 mn 393 (2012)
Intellectual
Keystone Tech.
Eastman Kodak
Visteon Corporation
Fujifilm
Seiko Epson Co. $25 mn 86 (2013)
Deal Year
2006
2007
2000
2008
2009
2012
2012
2013
Patents acquired
as per
agreement
> 70 patents
Not known
Not known
2005 Not known
Not known
Not known
Access >100
patents
>1200 patents
Not known