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1. Apple counterclaim Qualcomm snapped 820 Snapdragon infringement;
SAN FRANCISCO, November 29 Beijing time on the evening of 29 November, Apple (hereinafter referred to as 'Apple') counterclaim today, accused Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile processor infringes Apple's patent rights.
In July of this year, Qualcomm had sued Apple, claiming that Apple had infringed upon several of its patented technologies and was mainly concerned with improving the battery life of mobile devices. At the time, Apple denied Qualcomm's allegations and claimed Qualcomm's patented technology was invalid.
Today, Apple also adjusted its argument in a counterclaim against Qualcomm, alleging Qualcomm infringes at least eight patents owned by Apple that improve battery life.
Apple said in a lawsuit that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 and Snapdragon 820 processors infringe on Apple's patent rights, and are currently being used by Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, including smartphones from Samsung and Google, including Xiao Long 800 and Xiao Xiao Dragon 820 processor, but in the indictment, Apple did not mention Samsung and Google.
In response to these violations, Apple asked Qualcomm to make a compensation.
The patent dispute between Apple and Qualcomm is only part of a series of lawsuits waged by the two companies that sued Qualcomm and claimed $ 1 billion in January of this year.Apples argues that some of the royalties levied by Qualcomm are simply unreasonable.
In May, Qualcomm brought four of Apple's foundries Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal to court, saying the four foundries had refused Apple's instigation to pay the patent Authorization fee.
In addition, Qualcomm is facing prosecution from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) due to complaints filed by many companies over the FTC's Qualcomm charges that Qualcomm's pricing strategy is unreasonable and that Apple is one of the parties to the complaint.
2. The people of their own way to cure their body? Hisense sued Sharp more than a dozen products patent infringement;
Set a micro-channel news, recently the media learned from Hisense Group, the company's listed company Hisense Electric formally filed a lawsuit to courts in Beijing and Qingdao, accused Sharp of up to a dozen models of TV products sold in China infringe Hisense Invention patents, alleged infringement products in China more than 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) for sale.
It is understood that the patents initiated by Hisense mainly include two patents: a backlight control method, a device and an LED television, and a backlight drive circuit and a television set, all of which are within the validity period. Hisense sued the court Sharp ordered the immediate cessation of infringement of its patent rights, stop manufacturing, sales, promised sales of infringing products, and the destruction of infringing products and other appeals, the two courts have formally accepted the case.
In fact, the patent litigation between Hisense and Sharp has been uninterrupted.In June 9, 2017, Sharp around the North American market LCD TV sales brand rights issue in California, the United States court against China Hisense Group sued Hisense to stop Use the Sharp TV business brand and claim damages of at least $ 100 million.
On June 16, Sharp of Taiwan's Hon Hai Company withdrew its lawsuit against China Hisense; subsequently, on July 17, Sharp filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Federal District Court of the Southern District of New York suing some Chinese-made and marketed TVs of Hisense Group in mainland China Aircraft products, against Sharp's WLAN-related patent technology.Sharp asked Hisense to ban the sale of infringing products for a long time and demanded compensation for damages.
However, Sharp's prosecution of Hisense in the United States appears to be blocked progress.According to Hisense, Sharp's Hisense first action in the United States to withdraw an appeal, November 13, the United States District Court (DC) made an order to approve Hisense's request to dismiss Sharp prosecution Of the motion, at the same time Sharp's move to apply for a ban to be rejected.
It appears that for Sharp's lawsuit attack, Hisense no longer choose to sit still, but will be the way to cure their people.
3.NPE patent agencies in China on the HTC, Samsung launched an attack, domestic mobile phone manufacturers need to be highly vigilant;
Recently, the United States L2 Mobile Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'L2') to Taiwan HTC International Electronics Co., Ltd., HTC Communication Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'HTC') v. Beijing Intellectual Property Court , L2 company claimed HTC suspected of infringing on two patents, the total claim amount is about 2.5 million.
L2 claimed that it made a licensing request to HTC based on the principle of fairness, reasonableness and non-discrimination, but HTC refused to respond. HTC made and promised to sell and sell 'HTC U11' without the permission of L2 Company. LTE mobile phones, all fall into the scope of protection of the patent involved, constitute a patent infringement.
It is reported that HTC allegedly infringing two standard essential patents (ie, SEP) as a method of dealing with the retransmission of a transmission time interval bundle and communication device ',' a method for improving the restarting efficiency of a radio resource control program and a communication device '.
It is noteworthy that these two patents were originally filed by ASUS Computer Co., Ltd. on August 4, 2009 and November 21, 2008, respectively, and were authorized on April 17, 2013 and July 2, 2014 Subsequently, Asustek transferred the patents involved in the case involved to Innovative Sonic Co., Ltd., and Innovative Sonic Co., Ltd. was transferred to L2.
The LTE communication standard promulgated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology includes the above patent, and the LTE mobile phones that are legally sold in the mainland of China meet the above criteria, which means that the technical solutions of the claims in the involved patent applications have been implemented.
In addition, in June 2017, Diar Sisim Technology Co., Ltd. sued Samsung for the Nanjing Intermediate Court for patent infringement. The patent involved is "Improved GSM Cellular Terminal" (Patent No. 998030201).
The patent was originally filed by Georges Livirotti and Dante Toni Nietti on February 15, 1999, and was granted on October 22, 2008. The patent was subsequently assigned to the 'S.I. .SV.EL. EDI AG, then transferred to DiAlchem Technology Ltd.
Li Junhui, a research fellow at China University of Political Science and Law IPR Research Center, said that both the L2 company suing HTC in Beijing and the Diar Sisi Technology Co., Ltd. suing Samsung in Nanjing are U.S. companies and all belong to the NPE. In short, NPE refers to those who have a patent but do not engage in the production of patented products.
Li Junhui believes that although the two companies are the first to attack is the Samsung, HTC and other non-Chinese mobile phone manufacturers, but apparently 'novice' is its purpose for two purposes, one is to test the domestic courts NPE patent Litigation attitude and protection efforts, the second is based on the court ruling to accelerate and including millet, vivo, Jin Li, 360, etc., a number of domestic mobile phone manufacturers, patent licensing cooperation.
Therefore, although there are currently no domestic handset manufacturers involved in the lawsuit, domestic handset manufacturers, including Huawei, Xiaomi and OPPO, need to remain vigilant and issue an invalid announcement as soon as possible on the patents involved so as to prevent the NPE institution from obtaining the winning judgment Find their own fees.
4. Chinese and foreign grab chip dominant patent war lift fire;
China hit hundreds of billions (US dollars, the same below) for chip leadership, not subject to foreign investors, however, pinch the lifeblood of the Chinese chip market, Samsung, Micron, Hynix, Toshiba and other international manufacturers are not so easy to make concessions, ready to wait for chance Countermeasure, the current under the table showing the trend of the tide of turbulence.Individuals will wave a patent knife opened to China, the entire chip market is filled with smoke of smoke of war.
However, China has always wanted to break the monopoly of these foreign companies. In recent years, it has aggressively invested heavily in the chip industry and strived for autonomy in the chip industry. Sohu.com reported that the global chip market is almost monopolized by international manufacturers, including Samsung, Micron, Hynix and Toshiba. Therefore, China's development of the chip industry has been upgraded to the national strategic pattern. It can be said that the power of the country is irreducible.
M & Ms ran into trouble
In recent years, China has invested at least a few hundred billion yuan in the chip industry, hoping to get rid of the fate of dependence on imports. However, it has been stymied along the way. At one point it was trying to grasp the key technologies through mergers and acquisitions but it ran into a hurdle and the result was suppressed by foreign investors.
In China has not yet decided to develop the chip industry before the international manufacturers make pours, and now China will develop the chip industry to national strategic specifications, the major manufacturers worried, worried about the mouth fat disappeared, and on the table Under the action to contain the blockade, trying to suppress the development of China's chip industry.Experts believe that the chip industry, the storm strikes Sino-foreign patent war is about to hit.
International manufacturers in order to ensure their own interests, will not allow China's chip industry to grow, so take precautions against the strategy, as long as the development of China's chip industry more than the imagination of international manufacturers, threatening their interests, it will cut off from the patent knife China, the priority is to stop granting patents to China and give China a fatal blow.
Lack of core technology
Over the past 10 years China has been giving OEMs to international chip makers. Although they have learned a lot of manufacturing techniques and package testing technologies, they have learned only under the permission of international manufacturers. International manufacturers still have reservations. In fact, the chip's raw materials, production lines, high-end manufacturing process, technology patents and other core also fully grasp the hands of these international companies.
An expert in a chip field at the Chinese Academy of Sciences admitted frankly: "China has made great progress but its progress has been too slow. It has already lagged behind the international advanced level in two generations and it is impossible to surpass it in a short time."
Thanks to the Chinese market, Samsung, Hynix and Micron have made big profits. Thanks to the technology of these manufacturers, China's mobile phones, computers and networks have gained global market share in the world, and experts believe that the international market Forced factory, can stimulate the Chinese chip industry, the leap-forward growth.
(Wang newspaper)
5.LG latest design patent exposure, or will be applied to the flagship new machine LG G7
Set micro-network news, foreign media recently exposed a LG latest design patent, the patent shows that LG may launch a future looks similar to the EssentialPhone phone.
From the patent map can be seen, the design is very similar to the EssentialPhone, the front with a full screen, the top there is a 'beauty tip', above the camera module, 'beauty tip' put some common shortcut applications, including text messaging, Phone, music, etc. It is very likely that these shortcuts will always be displayed, which is equivalent to another way of 'secondary screen'.
It is reported that at the upcoming CES show, LG is expected to launch flagship new machine G7 to enhance the company's competitiveness in the top smart phone market.From the latest exposure of the latest design patents, it is most likely to apply to the LG G7 (or V30) product.