Contract on patents:

Osram grants license to Everlight

Osram GmbH, Munich, and Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd., Taipei, recently signed a patent license contract. Osram has granted Everlight a royalty license to manufacture and sell surface mountable light emitting diodes (SMT LEDs) for white and coloured light and for other white LEDs with conversion technology, for which Osram holds patents. Typical applications include backlighting for mobile phone and car radio displays.

SMT mounting forms are very small and allow for easy further processing in industrial series manufacturing. Osram holds patents for several mounting forms and packages for SMT LEDs.

Conversion technology for LEDs was developed by the Osram Opto Semiconductors subsidiary. It enables white LEDs to be produced using blue emitting InGaN (Indium Gallium Nitride) based chips and a suitable fluorescent converter.

"Over the years, we have built up a very strong position and have a good deal of intellectual property at our disposal" explains Dr. Rüdiger Mueller, CEO of Osram Opto Semiconductors. "We are basically willing to grant licenses to other companies. The demand for SMT LEDs and white LEDs is growing so quickly that for capacity reasons we are not able to provide all the products the market is calling for." The company had signed patent contracts with Nichia and Rohm last year and now for the first time has entered into a contract with a company from Taiwan.

About Osram
Osram is one of the two largest lighting manufacturers in the world. The Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH subsidiary in Regensburg offers its customers a range of solutions based on semiconductor technology for lighting, sensor and visualisation applications. The company operates facilities in Regensburg (Germany), San José (USA) and Penang (Malaysia). In the 2002 fiscal year (to the end of September) its 3370 employees produced sales totaling EURO 309 million. Further information is available at www.osram-os.com.

About Everlight
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