Tridonic files suit against distributor

Tridonic Jennersdorf GmbH, a subsidiary of Tridonic GmbH & Co KG and part of the Austria-based Zumtobel Group, has announced the filing of a lawsuit against German distributor Ingram Micro Distribution GmbH. The suit focuses on LED intellectual property (IP) owned by the B.O.S.E. Consortium of which Tridonic is a part, and LEDs used in HTC smartphones. Tridonic targeted S-KON eKontor24 for selling HTC smartphones with LEDs that infringed the patent for using yellow silicate phosphors with blue LEDs to yield white light. Tridonic said a Munich court affirmed Tridonic’s arguments and subsequently the parties settled the matter, presumably in Tridonic’s favor.