Universal Display Corporation Enters Definitive Agreement To Acquire Over 300 OLED-Related Patents From Merck KGaA

Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | November 06, 2025 04:44pm

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:OLED) (UDC), enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED® technology and materials, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OLED patent assets from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company. This portfolio, which has an average remaining lifetime of approximately 10 years, includes more than 300 issued and pending patents worldwide, covering more than 110 unique patent families in the field of advanced OLED emissive device structures and related material components. The acquisition is expected to expand UDC's patent coverage across key emissive building blocks that enable high‑efficiency OLED devices and aligns with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany's strategy to focus on charge transport and triplet host materials, boosting the performance of components surrounding the emissive materials in these devices.

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