{"id":264,"date":"2011-08-15T18:35:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T01:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/?p=264"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:47:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:47:06","slug":"litepanels-attempts-to-create-monopoly-in-video-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/2011\/08\/litepanels-attempts-to-create-monopoly-in-video-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Litepanels attempts to create monopoly in Video Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><strong>Litepanels makers of led lighting is attempting to block the importation of LED product that it says violate its patents.\u00a0 The patents are at best vague and at the worst an attempt to use lawyers make Litepanels overpriced untis the only alternative for LED lighting.\u00a0 I will be exploring the problem with the patents in another article.\u00a0 People need to stock up on LED lighting now.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Litepanels_patent_scam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-272\" title=\"Litepanels_patent_scam\" src=\"http:\/\/sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Litepanels_patent_scam.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Litepanels_patent_scam.png 510w, https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Litepanels_patent_scam-300x121.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Written by James Daugherty Date: 8\/15\/2011<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Litepanels has filed a 337 complaint with the United States International Trade Commission to halt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2026the importation into the United States, the sale for importation, and the sale within the United States after importation of certain LED photographic lighting devices and components thereof.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">This would stop all other LED video and photo lights from being sold in the US and effectively give Litepanels a monopoly on the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Link to full 337 Filing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usitc.gov\/secretary\/fed_reg_notices\/337\/2838_notice_public_interest08032011sgl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Link to Complaint (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usitc.gov\/secretary\/fed_reg_notices\/337\/2838_notice_public_interest08032011sgl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Link to Patents (<a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=0&amp;f=S&amp;l=50&amp;TERM1=Contrast+Lighting+Services&amp;FIELD1=&amp;co1=AND&amp;TERM2=&amp;FIELD2=&amp;d=PTXT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><big><u><b>Here are the companies affected.<\/b><\/u><\/big><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flolight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.flolight.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prompterpeople.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.prompterpeople.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikancorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.ikancorp.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coollights.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.coollights.biz<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elationlighting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.elationlighting.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotodiox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.fotodiox.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visiolight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.visiolight.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarlightingsystems.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.stellarlightingsystems.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-weight: bold;\">This concerned patent Nos. 6,948,823 and 7,163,302 (&#8220;Wide area lighting apparatus and effects system&#8221; and &#8220;Camera-mounted semiconductor lighting apparatus&#8221; respectively.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Those patents list the Assignee as Contrast Lighting Services and the Inventors as Pohlert; Rudy G., et al. There are a total of 12 patents on file at the USPTO with the Asignee listed as Contrast Lighitng Services.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">1 7,972,022 Stand-mounted light panel for natural illumination in film, television or video<br \/>\n2 7,874,701 Lighting apparatus with adjustable lenses or filters<br \/>\n3 7,604,361 Versatile lighting apparatus and associated kit<br \/>\n4 7,510,290 Stand-mounted light panel for natural illumination in film, television or video<br \/>\n5 7,429,117 Camera-mounted dimmable lighting apparatus<br \/>\n6 7,331,681 Lighting apparatus with adjustable lenses or filters<br \/>\n7 7,318,652 Versatile stand-mounted wide area lighting apparatus<br \/>\n8 7,163,302 Camera-mounted semiconductor lighting apparatus<br \/>\n9 7,140,742 Surface-mount semiconductor lighting apparatus<br \/>\n10 6,948,823 Wide area lighting apparatus and effects system<br \/>\n11 6,824,283 Wide area fluorescent lighting apparatus<br \/>\n12 6,749,310 Wide area lighting effects system<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=0&amp;f=S&amp;l=50&amp;TERM1=Contrast+Lighting+Services&amp;FIELD1=&amp;co1=AND&amp;TERM2=&amp;FIELD2=&amp;d=PTXT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link<\/a> to the list on the USPTO website.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><u><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Litepanels is owned my the Vitec Group a UK based company.<\/span><\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><strong>Videocom Brands<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Anton\/Bauer<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Autoscript<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; The Camera Store<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Litepanels<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Microwave Service Company<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Nucomm<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; OConnor<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Petrol Bags<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; RF Central<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Sachtler<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Vinten<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Vinten Radamec<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><strong>Imaging &amp; staging brands<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Avenger<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Brilliant Stages<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Colorama<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Gitzo<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Kata<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Lastolite<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Litec<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Manfrotto<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Manfrotto Distribution<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; National Geographic (manufactured &amp; distributed under licence)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Tomcat<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><strong>Services Brands<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">&#8211; Bexel<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 26px;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think that this says it all <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Dilbert on patents\" src=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/000000000\/00000000\/0000000\/100000\/20000\/9000\/800\/129851\/129851.strip.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Update 8\/16\/2011 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><u><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Creative Cow blocks mention of the legal action on Lighting Forum<\/span><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">I can only assume that Creative Cow is blocking mention of legal action by LitePanels because LitePanels is a sponsor.\u00a0 If you check the news part of Creative Cow you will not even find a mention.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">So if you don&#8217;t want a bad review or anyone talking bad about your product then sponsoring adds at Creative Cow is the answer. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Go to NextWaveDV (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextwavedv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nextwavedv.com\/<\/a>)\u00a0 NextWaveDV broke the story and should get the credit.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Update #2 8\/16\/2011<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">If you have ever wondered why LitePanels cost so much then you won&#8217;t be suprised that LitePanels spends quite a bit on laywers. I was able to find 5 major lawsuits filed all without any mention in any trade papers.\u00a0 The pattern is find a week company to file lawsuit against get a resolution and use that resolution to attack other companies.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Link to First Lawsuit (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findforms.com\/pdf_files\/cand\/192241\/11-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link<\/a>)<br \/>\nLink to Gekko Lawsuit (<a href=\"http:\/\/tx.findacase.com\/research\/wfrmDocViewer.aspx\/xq\/fac.20061016_0000866.etx.htm\/qx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Link to Lawyer (Link) <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Here are just some of the cases.<br \/>\nInovation through litigation.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>RFC Case Number:<\/strong> P-L07-239T <strong>File Date:<\/strong> Tuesday, May 29, 2007<br \/>\n<strong>Plaintiff:<\/strong> LITEPANELS LLC ET AL<br \/>\n<strong>Plaintiff Counsel:<\/strong> SAMUEL FRANKLIN BAXTER OF MCKOOL SMITH<br \/>\n<strong>Defendant:<\/strong> THOMAS MCKAY dba VARIZOOM LENS CONTROLS<br \/>\nSWIT ELECTRIONICS CO LTD<br \/>\n<strong>Cause:<\/strong> 35:271 PATENT INFRINGEMENT<br \/>\n<strong>Court:<\/strong> Texas Eastern District Court<br \/>\n<strong>Judge:<\/strong> LEONARD DAVIS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>RFC Case Number:<\/strong> P-S07-480L<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>File Date:<\/strong> Monday, October 15, 2007<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Plaintiff:<\/strong> Swit Electronics Co Ltd<br \/>\n<strong>Plaintiff Counsel:<\/strong> Richard F. Cauley, Erick P. Wolf, Larry E. Severin of Wang Hartmann &amp; Gibbs<br \/>\n<strong>Defendant:<\/strong> Litepanels LLC<br \/>\nLitepanels, Inc.<br \/>\n<strong>Cause:<\/strong> 28:1338 Patent Infringement<br \/>\n<strong>Court:<\/strong> Texas Eastern District Court<br \/>\n<strong>Judge:<\/strong> Leonard Davis<br \/>\n<strong>Notes:<\/strong> Case transferred in from the Northern Distict of California. Original case #: 07-cv-2645.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>RFC Case Number:<\/strong> P-L07-508S<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Court Case Number:<\/strong> 2:07-cv-00508-LED<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>File Date:<\/strong> Monday, November 19, 2007<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Plaintiff:<\/strong> Litepanels LLC<br \/>\nLitepanels Inc.<br \/>\n<strong>Plaintiff Counsel:<\/strong> Sidney C. Capshaw III, Elizabeth L. DeRieux, N. Claire Abernathy of Brown McCarroll<br \/>\nHenry C. Bunsow, K.T. Cherian, Robert F. Kramer of Howrey LLP<br \/>\n<strong>Defendant:<\/strong> Sony Electronics Inc.<br \/>\nSony Corporation of America Inc.<br \/>\nSony Corporation<br \/>\n<strong>Cause:<\/strong> 35:271 Patent Infringement<br \/>\n<strong>Court:<\/strong> Texas Eastern District Court<br \/>\n<strong>Judge:<\/strong> David Folsom<br \/>\n<strong>Notes:<\/strong> Date terminated: 03\/31\/2008<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>RFC Case Number:<\/strong> P-L08-291S<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Court Case Number:<\/strong> 2:08-cv-00291-TJW-CE<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>File Date:<\/strong> Monday, July 28, 2008<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Plaintiff:<\/strong> Litepanels, LLC<br \/>\nLitepanels, Inc.<br \/>\n<strong>Plaintiff Counsel:<\/strong> Sidney C. Capshaw, Elizabeth L. DeRieux, Nancy C. Abernathy of Capshaw DeRieux LLP<br \/>\nHenry C. Bunsow, K.T. Cherian, Robert F. Kramer of Howrey LLP<br \/>\n<strong>Defendant:<\/strong> Sony Electronics, Inc.<br \/>\nSony Corporation of America, Inc.<br \/>\nSony Corporation<br \/>\n<strong>Cause:<\/strong> 35:271 Patent Infringement<br \/>\n<strong>Court:<\/strong> Texas Eastern District Court<br \/>\n<strong>Judge:<\/strong> Judge T. John Ward<br \/>\nReferred To: Magistrate Judge Charles Everingham<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>RFC Case Number:<\/strong> P-L09-554D<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Court Case Number:<\/strong> 6:09-cv-00554<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>File Date:<\/strong> Thursday, December 10, 2009<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Plaintiff:<\/strong> Litepanels, Ltd<br \/>\nLitepanels, Inc.<br \/>\n<strong>Plaintiff Counsel:<\/strong> Sidney Calvin Capshaw, III, Elizabeth L. DeRieux, D. Jeffrey Rambin of Capshaw DeRieux, LLP<br \/>\n<strong>Defendant:<\/strong> Dot Line Corp.<br \/>\nInfocus Camera &amp; Imaging, LLC<br \/>\n<strong>Cause:<\/strong> 35:271 Patent Infringement <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Court:<\/strong> Texas Eastern District Court<br \/>\n<strong>Judge:<\/strong> Leonard Davis<br \/>\n<strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Update with Video&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"345\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DM9Co8RdaNE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DM9Co8RdaNE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Litepanels makers of led lighting is attempting to block the importation of LED product that it says violate its patents.\u00a0 The patents are at best vague and at the worst an attempt to use lawyers make Litepanels overpriced untis the only alternative for LED lighting.\u00a0 I will be exploring the problem with the patents in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"category-news","9":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdfcpug.com\/fcpwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}