According to the Trade Relief and Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce, on August 8, 2018, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a final ruling to terminate the 337 investigation of China's LED stage lighting responding companies.
On March 6, 2018, the US company Fraen Corporation filed an application with the US International Trade Commission in accordance with Section 337 of the US Tariff Act of 1930, accusing the LED lighting equipment and components exported to the United States, imported in the United States, or sold in the United States ( Certain LED Lighting Devices and Components Thereof) infringed its patent rights and requested the US International Trade Commission to issue a general exclusion order and a prohibition order. Guangzhou Haoyang Electronics Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Lefox Electronics Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Caiyu Lighting Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Xuanyi Lighting Equipment Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Feixing Lighting Equipment Co., Ltd., Wuxi Changsheng Special Light Source Electrical Appliance Factory The Chinese company is the listed company.
Chinese responding company Guangzhou Haoyang Electronics Co., Ltd. actively responded to the lawsuit and successfully proved to ITC its independent research and development, prior use and other facts in the legal defense, and finally forced the applicant to unilaterally terminate the ITC to the ITC. The motion of the investigation. On July 12, 2018, the ITC Administrative Judge's preliminary ruling agreed to the applicant's termination of the investigation of the responding company.