the only red phosphor to be used in LED due to its high brightness

In his opinion, demonstrating to customers how the investment pays off with lower maintenance costs and energy savings is critical because led high bay light are more expensive on the front end.

In particular, GE’s traditional rivals, Siemens AG’s Osram unit and Royal Philips NA, have both predicted similar growth rates as new regulations combine with declining LED prices .Siemens is expecting the market to grow to $13 billion (about 9.8 billion euros) by 2013 and rise another 44 percent by 2016. Philips predicted in September that 45 percent of the market will be LED-based by 2015.

On December 20th, 2011, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (“MCC” "; Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Yoshimitsu Kobayashi), has filed an infringement lawsuit in Seoul Central District Court against a US company, Intematix Corporation and a Korean distributor, GVP, to enjoin them from importing and selling their phosphor products, claiming that they infringe a red phosphor patent in Korea (No. 816693) which is owned by MCC and National Institute of Material Science.

The Korean patent No. 816693 (*) relates to a nitride-type red phosphor commonly known as CASN and SCASN (**), and LED, lighting equipment and image display etc. in which such phosphor is used. CASN and SCASN is the only red phosphor to be used in LED due to its high brightness and reliability. Such red phosphor MCC now sells is supported and held in high repute by many LED manufacturers.

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