Insiders may have thought that this is Dunlop Technology and Xin Wei, general manager of Mo Weihua (also the original vice president of Thai Science and Technology R & D) between the incidents, according to industry sources, Xin Wei not only engaged in the same business and Duntech Fingerprinting business, but also in terms of investment and financing also 'smooth sailing,' is about to usher in the second million-level financing.
So, Xin Wei can go to this step is Dunta Technology does not chase it? Or that the chase has been completed? Duntai Chairman Hu Zhengtao Science and Technology recently accepted a micro-network interview, the whole story of the ins and outs of the incident , And stressed that DunTech Technology will retain all the responsibility for the responsibility. At present, there are still about 40 related lawsuits concerning the infringement related to Moeller and Xinwei.
Leave Dunlop independent, rely on labor relations to avoid competition restrictions
Pull back the time until March 2015, when Moelva completely left Dunlop Technology.
Prior to this, Mo Lianghua joined Dun Tai in September 2006. After nine years of tempering and promotion, Mo Lianghua has grown from an initial R & D engineer to a vice president of R & D at Dun Tai, after the founder of Dun Tai Hu Zhengzheng's number two; and after leaving in March 2015, just over three months, Mo Lianghua officially established Shenzhen Xin Wei Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Xin Wei') and served as general manager, start And Dun Tai, the same cut into the field of fingerprint chips.
As for leaving Dunlop, MoLianghua claimed that he had "left Dunlop and wanted to make a small test-chop in the capital market," and later set up XinWei Technologies, which claimed to be 'I am running into trouble in the capital market, , By a friend's invitation to join Xin Wei.
However, Dun Tai pointed out that this is not a fact.
Dun Tai said Mo Liang Hua made a lot of groundwork before leaving the company. Prior to his departure, he had set up Shenzhen Millstone Technology Co., Ltd. ("Millstone") for fingerprint recognition technology research and development, with him at the same time there are more than a dozen BitTun Technology R & D engineers leave, some leave Dun Tai to join the letter Wei, some to avoid competing restrictions and its personnel relations linked to the seemingly unrelated to the business of Dun Tai related affiliates. At that time Dun and fingerprint chip R & D team From nearly 50 people to concentrate after leaving only a few people, Dun Tai fingerprint chip research and development team collapsed overnight.
The author found through the eyes of the day, letter Wei was established in June 25, 2015, Mo Lianghua as a director of the company, the direct shareholding of 20%; February 26, 2015 set up grinding stone company, direct shareholding 99.9% of the total shares of the Company; Shenzhen Core Technology (Limited Partnership) ("Core Wei") was established on 24 April 2015 with a holding of 98%; and on May 8, 2015, Shenzhen United Technologies Co., Ltd. (limited partnership) Referred to as 'stone'), holding 65%; November 20, 2015 letter Wei biological established .Mo Lianghua directly or through the millstone, stone, Wei indirectly hold 80% equity interest in Wei, through layers Ownership structure design, openly engaged in fingerprint identification business by the letter Wei.
As we all know, as a technology company, especially the chip company's technology research and development staff to sign a non-compete agreement that requires a period of time to leave the original owner can not engage in the same areas of work, otherwise it will be a non-compete agreement, facing the old club's Breach of contract.
Dun Tai certainly will not abandon the breach of contract due to non-compete agreements. In 2015, it sued over a dozen former Dun & Bradstreet developers including Mo Lianghua and provided them with more social security contributions The company filed a lawsuit against the noncompete restrictions, including BoGeng Technology, Cheung Long 3D, the East, deep plowing technology, Asia tillage electronics, etc. Including Mo Liang Hua, Xin Wei, millstone, stone, core Wei, Qin a However, Dun Tai said that due to the careful planning of Mo Lianghua and other concealed illegal means, many lawsuits have not yet resulted in the final verdict at the moment.
In the case of Dun Tai and Xin Wei, the labor arbitration suit filed under the non-compete agreement is only the beginning. More importantly, the patent ownership between Dun Tai and Xin Wei and the trade secret litigation initiated by Dun Tai.
Nearly a hundred patents were 'abandoned' and commercial secret litigation was taking place
For high-tech chip companies, the patent is the crown jewel, trade secrets is the most important, while in Dundee and the letter Wei's case, both include the same.
In the early days of the founding of Xinwei, it claims to have more than 100 patents related to fingerprinting, driving and touch.Dunter said that most of these patents are actually from the pre-departure and post-employment period of these patents by Mo Weihua to Xinwei Technology Or other related companies on behalf of the application.
'According to the law, these patents should belong to job creation, application rights and patent rights should belong to Dun & Tung.' In this regard, Dun Tai formally filed a lawsuit in Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court in July 2016, After submitting the relevant evidence, the trial of the case has been completed and all the 18 core patent judgments filed by Dun & Bradstre are vested in Dun & Bradstreet.
After the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court decided that all 18 core patents should be vested in Dun & Tung, Credit Suisse and its affiliates quickly revoked nearly one hundred other patents, resulting in Dunhuang being unable to get the above patents back through its inventions, Dunnett also led to the above technology can not apply for patent protection.
Hu Zhengda said that the revocation of nearly a hundred abandoned patents that originally belonged to Dun Tai would not be denied by Dun Tai to Xinwei and its affiliates. Even if Dun & Bradstreet did not authorize Dunhuang, Xinwei and its affiliates did not The right to produce products based on these patents, the follow-up must require the letter Wei and its affiliates compensation.
In addition, the industry is concerned about the commercial secret lawsuit of both parties.In November 2015, Dun Tai to Molly Wah and Shin Wei on suspicion of infringement of Dun Tai trade secrets, filed a lawsuit to the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court.
Dun Tai believes that press-type fingerprinting technology which lasted 3 years of research and development, and the protection of strict confidentiality measures, and Molang Hua used to serve as vice president of Dunhuang and R & D head of the position was obtained from the relevant staff Technology and further research and development, and then by the letter Wei product promotion to customers.Dun Tai believes that the defendant letter Wei infringed its trade secrets.
Although the commercial secret case was first tried and Dun Tai's claim was not supported, Dundee filed an appeal with Guangdong Provincial Higher People's Court and is still in the process of hearing the case.
Mo Lianghua believes that the letter Wei did not infringe Duntai's trade secrets.But Dun Tai said the industry with the basic facts can analyze and determine whether Mo Lianghua and Xin Wei infringed the business secrets of Dun Tai.Related situation: Xin Wei Affiliates (Millstones) were established in February 2015. In March, Mo Liang Hua resigned from Dun Tai and Xinwei was established in June. In just a few months, he applied for more than 100 patents and issued fingerprint products However, due to the fact that he took advantage of the position of R & D manager during his tenure of office in Taitung, he used various means to cover up the facts, resulting in extremely difficult investigations and verifications of the case. In addition, the complexity of commercial secret cases was the case of Correct ruling has increased the difficulty, leading to the first instance court of commercial secrets failed to correctly restore the facts in determining the facts.At present, the two cases of commercial secret litigation are still under way.
At this point, Dun & Bradstreet and its related companies and individuals litigation, including non-competition restrictions, infringement of trade secrets and patent ownership are still ongoing, there is no end and no settlement.
Xin Wei Wei right to do the current product, Dun Tai retains the chasing rights
Commercial rights protection is a long process, and in particular the fingerprinting technology involved in both cases has gone through a wave of upsurge. It is also precisely because of the above events that Dunlop missed a good chance of catching up in 2015 when the capacitive fingerprint identification burst .
Hu Zhengda said although the incident caused some trauma to the company, we did not stop, but actively stepped up efforts in the deployment of R & D resources of capacitive fingerprint identification product line in a short period of time. Set up a research and development team in the field of fingerprint identification.
At present, Dun Tai already has a complete capacitive fingerprint identification product line, perfect capacitance detection and fingerprint patent, Coating, Cover solutions have been successfully mass-produced in the brand client.Of course, objectively speaking, due to the incident of Mo Lianghua Influence, Dun Tai missed the first wave of opportunities to cut into the fingerprint identification market, but Dun Tai's other optical fingerprint R & D team has achieved initial success and has been officially released on January 8 this year, the optical screen fingerprint products, is expected Will be mass production soon 2018 is also the development of optical fingerprint opportunities, vivo has released the industry's first screen fingerprint recognition phone.
Hu Zhengda stressed that the letter Wei products do now if the alleged patent infringement, letter Wei is not entitled to do, because at the time of the letter Wei patent applications at least to the present, according to Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court ruling belongs to Dun Tai.Therefore, no Dunlop authorized, Xin Wei is not entitled to the production of related products, the follow-up Dun Tai will also require the letter Wei compensation. At the same time and Mo Weihua and letter Wei's litigation has not yet ended, around Mo Lianghua, Xin Wei infringement as the center Of the relevant disputes, including patent ownership, non-competition restrictions, trade secrets, nearly 40 lawsuits are being heard.
Finally, Hu Zhengda said that the fingerprint chip is a high-tech industry barriers, technological evolution from generation to generation is also very different, just have the funds not to research and develop more methods to focus on.Industry sources said that in a rapidly changing market environment, due to violations Competing restrictions, suspected infringement of trade secrets and patent ownership and many other disputes Xuan Wei, but also how far it is doubtful.
Of course, regardless of the final outcome, we should view the facts in a fair and objective manner. Especially in the domestic semiconductor industry is in the golden period of development, the maintenance of fair facts is also a benign guide to the entire industry. Wei's dispute dynamics.