Walmart, Amazon and Target are facing a lawsuit for allegedly selling a wildly popular type of light bulb without the proper authorization
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara say they came up with the design for the popular vintage-looking light bulbs—and the market has been flooded by unauthorized copycats.A group of major retailers, including Walmart, Amazon and Target, are facing a lawsuit for allegedly selling a wildly popular type of light bulb without the proper authorization.
The university says that it is bringing the lawsuit in order to protect"the reinvention of the light bulb" by a team of researches led by Nobel Prize winner Shuji Nakamura at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It says that university researchers invented and patented a filament LED technology that uses a fraction of the energy that traditional incandescent light bulbs use, plus lasts longer and stays cooler, according to the complaint.
The light bulbs weren't widely available until about five years ago, but have experienced enormous popularity. Sales in the U.S. are expected to top $1 billion in 2019, according to the lawsuit. They are typically marketed as"vintage" or"Edison" light bulbs, in a reference to the way light bulbs looked when Thomas Edison invented them.
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