Recently, Apple Inc. initiated a number of invalidation claims on the patents held by Guangdong Pingsun Electronics Co., Ltd. After the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office examined the three patents involved, it eventually made the declaration that all the patents were invalid 'Review of the decision.
Just after Apple Corp first launched the patent war on PISEN, PISEN Company not only defended the validity of its patents, but filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple's MFi certification to lead Apple to monopolize the civil infringement As a reason, Apple Inc. sued the court.
MFi certification is a trademark license of Apple Inc. for external accessories manufactured by its authorized accessory manufacturers. MFi certification is an acronym for apple company Made for iOS.
Apple has clear and mandatory requirements for all authorized resellers, and must sell licensed and branded accessory products for Apple's feature-based accessories or Apple products for damage to products without the approved accessories, Will not make any warranty.
In the face of a large number of Apple product peripherals manufacturers, which can be certified, which can not be passed, the decision is in the hands of Apple itself.
It is based on this point, PISEN filed a monopoly lawsuit against Apple, Claim amount is only one dollar, one yuan of the appeal to make the lawsuit look like a 'public interest litigation' , PISEN represents a number of Apple peripheral product manufacturers to declare war on Apple's monopoly, while the combination with Apple's previous patent invalid dispute, the lawsuit is more like PISEN playing a 'asymmetric war'.
Statistics from the website of the State Intellectual Property Office show that as of August 29, 2017, the number of PISEN designs in China is 36, while the one-off invalid three appearance patents accounted for all of PISEN Nearly 10% of appearance patents.
As a manufacturer of mobile peripherals, PISEN uses many technologies that are mature technologies, And want to achieve major innovations in headsets, power lines, conversion heads and other products not only need their own technology reserves also need to upgrade the technology of the main equipment suppliers, the appearance of the design patent has become the main weapon PISEN market competition.
The design patent in the patent application process with the same utility model, Only need to conduct a preliminary review without the need for substantive examination, which led to the design rights based on the patent is not solid foundation, Apple just saw this point in order to hit a one-time invalid out of the three wins Appearance of the patent.
Once more patents are found invalid, the corresponding product of PISEN Company will lose the patent protection and all relevant accessory manufacturers can use it, which will greatly affect the product sales income of PISEN.
PISEN also understands that using Apple's technical strength and patent protection legal mechanism can not account for any cheaper patent disputes, and Apple's MFi certification issues are increasingly being criticized by domestic enterprises.
PISEN stands out at this time, raised the banner of civil antitrust, Apple company involved in its first case of alleged monopoly proceedings or cases , As for the outcome, the court has yet to disclose new information, let us wait and see.
