Waiting for further hearing
In 2012, Apple configured Siri in the iPhone4S to trigger a wave of intelligent voice assistants, which led to a patent infringement lawsuit against Siri.
'Our small i robot is consistent with Siri's principle, but we applied for a patent in 2004 and was authorized by the State Intellectual Property Office in 2009 as early as Siri.' Yuan Hui, the chairman of Chi Zhen Intelligent, told China Securities Journal Reporter, in June 2012, Zhizhen Smart filed a patent infringement lawsuit with Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on the ground that Siri's technology solution fell into the scope of the patent protection of i-robot.
In 2013-2014, the patent dispute was held in court for four times, and Apple sued the State Intellectual Property Office that supported the effective intellectual property of Intellectual Property. In April 2016, the annual report of Smart Real Estate revealed that the company and state knowledge The case of reexamination proposed by the Patent Reexamination Board of Property Office in 2015 is still pending for further trial. On May 11, 2017, the Supreme People's Court formed a new collegiate bench and the case is awaiting further hearing.
At present, Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court has not yet declared a verdict on the prosecution of the intellectual property infringement case of Apple by Zhi Zhen; for the patent application invalidated by the apple company, the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office and Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court successively handed down the ruling Zhi Zhen smart win, and Beijing High People's Court to Apple's part of the proposal to support.
Apple's lawsuit with the global technology giant, and the patent litigation involving cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, the complexity of the decision case may be more lengthy.Apple that we have no patent at the time of the innovative, the technology has been widely used to apply for this patent Invalid, we need to prove that there are innovations both professionally and technically, "Yuan Hui said.
For this lawsuit, Xie Wei, head of PR China, Apple China, told the China Securities Journal that there was no response to the content.
Patent rights protection is facing a new topic
As a typical case of intellectual property, Zhi Zhen smart and Apple's patent disputes caused widespread concern in the industry.It is noteworthy that Apple filed a patent petition to the State Intellectual Property Office patent petitions i invalid applications.Industry sources said , Which became the plaintiff's response to patent infringement litigation conventional means.
Liu Xiyu, a lawyer with Beijing strategy law office, told China Securities Journal that as the awareness of patent rights protection increases, disputes over patent infringement have increased and competitors have become more and more frequent through the invalidation of patent applications, so the patent owner should try his best Avoid the patent itself flaws, do not let the other seize the handle.
Wang Naiying, a lawyer in Shanghai Xieli (Suzhou) Law Firm, pointed out that enterprises should establish a sound intellectual property management system suitable for their own enterprises in the application and management of intellectual property rights, specifically from the aspects of patent application management, patents Infringement risk management, professional team building and management, etc. 'In the field of patent application management, we must pay attention to the time node of the patent application and prevent the related technology from being open for patent application. Meanwhile, there must be a quality control process within the enterprise to ensure the quality of the patent application '