Cree said it had received a favorable ruling in its SSL-centric intellectual property action against Feit, while the amounts awarded to Boston University in an LED-centric action against Epistar and Everlight may be in question and Dow Corning gets positive ruling on an optical silicone patent.

Cree has announced that it received a Notice of the Initial Determination in an US International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation of patent infringement claims that Cree filed against Feit Electric Company and that the ITC judge found numerous patent infringements related to LED-based lighting products. Dow Corning has said the European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected a request to revoke a Dow patent that covers optical silicone used in solid-state lighting (SSL) applications. Boston University (BU) had scored a big LED-manufacturing-centric intellectual property (IP) win against Epistar Corporation, Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., and Lite-On Technology Corporation in December 2015, although the amount of the award may now be called into question.