The massive volume of filings at the Chinese Patent Office exceeds the filings of the next four most active patent offices combined. This filing surge in China signals a rapid shift to China as the center for the leading-edge technologies that will enable the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The massive prior art collection being built by the Chinese Patent Office comes at…

  IAM recently reported that LED maker Seoul Semiconductor will be auctioning off two separate patent portfolios relating to 5G and LED technologies. The first portfolio consists of 98 patent assets, including 55 U.S. assets, related to gallium nitride (GaN) radio frequency (RF) semiconductors. The second portfolio consists of more than 177patent assets developed by Seoul Semiconductor relating to high power, mid power LED packages,…