Largan Precision is the world's biggest supplier of smartphone camera lenses and accounts for 30 percent of the global market share.
[4] The company was founded in 1987 by Tony Chen and Scott Lin and went public on the Taiwan Stock Exchange on 11 March 2002.
[1] In 2013, Largan Precision sued Ability Opto-Electronic Technology Co (Chinese: 先進光電) for stealing its trade secret.
After more than eight years of litigation, on January 28, 2021, the Intellectual Property Court upheld its first instance judgment, ordering Ability to pay NT$1.52 billion(US$53.72 million) in compensation.
Over the years, Largan had also sued Newmax Technology Co (Chinese: 新鉅科), Samsung Electronics Co, and HP Inc for infringing on four of the company's patents and used it in the production of notebook camera lenses.