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1. Cool, millet market or attract more patent litigation;
Text / Li Junhui proofreading / Chen Li
The future will come.
On January 26, 2018, Coolpad announced that Coolpad sued Xiaomi to Shenzhen Intermediate Court for patent infringement and pleaded with the court: 1) to order Millet to stop producing immediately and promise to sell or sell the products suspected of infringing Cool's patent rights 2) Decree Xiaomi to compensate for economic losses, calculated as the standard of the infringement by millet, and 3) sentence Xiaomi to bear the costs of litigation fees and other rights.
This means that millet has finally been prosecuted in the domestic patent infringement, and more importantly, this may just be the beginning.
Because it may be in line to prosecute millet patent infringement, there are at least HTC and Huawei and many other mobile phone manufacturers.
In short, 2018 will be the year in which millet patent litigation will take place.
India's first patent robbery robbery: not only chaos millet matrix, it is dragged down its international layout
Recalling the growth of millet, the first time involved in patent litigation, the location is in India, while the opponent is Ericsson.
On December 11, 2014, Xiaomi was sued in India by Ericsson to India's Delhi High Court for allegedly infringing 8 patents owned by Ericsson such as ARM, EDGE, 3G and other related technologies.
The background at the time was that Millet's so-called 'pig on the tuyere' was rampant, while sales of millet phones also ushered in a new high since its birth.
According to the data released by Xiaomi at that time, the total number of units sold in 2014 was 61,120,000 sets, an increase of 227%. Tax-inclusive income was 74.3 billion yuan.
More importantly, before Ericsson sued for millet, millet has been vigorously promoting the layout of the Indian market.
In December 2014, Xiaomi once announced that in India it took only 6 months to achieve a shipment volume of over 1 million.
Subsequently, Xiaomi mobile phone sales in the Indian market suffered a series of frustrations, at the same time, including millet internationalization process has also been affected.
Coveted the United States was besieged: not yet officially on sale phone, was sued for alleged patent infringement
Whether the US market is worth entering or must enter? Although this is a matter of opinion, but many domestic mobile phone manufacturers are tireless.
In addition to the strong spending power of US users, many manufacturers are overstated by the "American Dream." It seems that as long as they enter the U.S. market, they represent bigger companies and products.
However, there are many stumbling blockers into the U.S. market, where patent litigation initiated by various NPE agencies is enough for many manufacturers to 'eat a pot.'
In December 2015, a NPE named BlueSpike filed a lawsuit in the Marshall Branch of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of East Texas, accusing Millet of selling smart communications equipment through Tomtop on suspicion of infringing on its patents in the United States.
Tomtop.com, as a cross-border e-commerce platform, is operated by a domestic company called Shenzhen Tongtuo Technology Co., Ltd.
In short, Xiaomi mobile phone was not sold in other sales channels, but was sold through an English E-commerce website, but this did not prevent it from being prosecuted by NPE agencies.
In addition to millet, as early as September 13, 2013, BlueSpike had sued Huawei for patent infringement at the Tyne branch of the Eastern District Court in East Texas.
The first case of domestic robbery: millet patent litigation risk or will enter the focus of the outbreak
As the millet mobile phone in 2017 overall performance is acceptable, making the concept of millet or millet Lei Jun once again become the focus of attention from all walks of life.
For example, some media said that the valuation of millet IPO will be more than 100 billion US dollars, if the successful listing of millet, millet Lei Jun is likely to become the "new Chinese richest man." Others have estimated that 'Lei Jun worth equivalent to 1.7 Bill Gates , 2 Zuckerberg, 3.2 Ma Huateng, 3.8 Ma!
Although the authenticity of these information or the credibility of the calculation results is questionable, but Xiaomi is actively preparing IPO probably do.
IPO preparation period has always been the high incidence of various types of corporate litigation.Such as Sogou preparations for listing, has been involved in Baidu input patent law battle, for example, in 2017 Wing On Bank listed, because of involvement in patent litigation, suspension of IPO Process, and after the listing, select 'pay disaster free' and eventually signed a patent license agreement with the patentee.
In addition, there is a point worth noting is that domestic sales of smart phones is entering a decline cycle.
Data from Canalys, a market research firm, showed that for the first time in China, smart phone shipments in 2016 saw an overall decline of 459 million units, down 4% from 2016; the fourth quarter of 2017 The worst, shipments fell more than 14% year on year, only 113 million units.
In short, before 5G officially commercialized, the downward trend of sales volume of domestic smartphones may continue for some time.
This inflection point is especially important for those who intend to launch a patent litigation because it is the key to calculating the illegal gains of the infringing party.
In fact, with the exception of Coolpad, HTC, which basically faded out of the mobile phone market, and Huawei, which is actively seeking to realize a patent, are likely to issue a patent lawsuit against the Millet at any time.
The question now is, is millet ready? (Are you OK?)
(Li Junhui, a Fellow researcher at the IPR Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, has long been concerned with relevant policies, laws and regulatory issues on the Internet, intellectual property and electronic commerce. Email: lijunhui0602 # 163.com, Wechat: lijunhui0602, Wechat: lijunhui0507)
2. Bank of America CEO: We have a large number of blockchain patents;
Yahoo Finance reported that Wall Street banks and financial institutions have been cracking down on 'blockchain without bitcoin' - a blockchain chain of distributed book-keeping technology that supports bitcoin, which has been around for a few years now, but people are treating bitcoin Attitudes toward other cryptocurrencies are still hesitant or even completely broken.
By the end of 2017, big names such as the Nasdaq, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Columbia Mercantile Exchange flooded into bitcoin futures when the prices of bitcoin, ethernet, Litecoin, Swiss Reps and other digital coins soared to their all-time highs In the market, the rhetoric of 'blockchain instead of Bitcoin' is still high.
According to AI Financial Reviews, Brian Moynihan, the chief executive of Bank of America, was asked about his views on Bitcoin when he was interviewed by the media during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: He first turned his attention to the blockchain: I think we have more patents than any player on the blockchain, "Moynihan said." We believe in the concepts of distributed ledgers and smart contracts, and everything you hear. We're developing Something ... but this is not a new concept.Machinery Registry is a distributed ledger.We know who owns a car and we know who owns a house.The idea is that you can do more electronic and can Across borders.
Moynihan then turned to bitcoin, saying: 'A cryptocurrency problem, a policy issue one must answer, but our idea is all about the digital movement of money and the blockchain.' "(Lei FengNet AI Financial Review Note: Bitcoin is not actually fully encrypted).
Moynihan's patented statement can be confirmed: A company spokesman said Bank of America owns 48 blockchain-related patents and patent applications, and Google's search for the patent database shows that Bank of America has 27 sites that contain 'blockchains' The word patent, 36 contains 'bitcoin' and 39 contains 'cryptocurrency', and there are likely to be some assignees with different names.
The latest patent related to the blockchain released by Bank of America in May is' also known as' personal payment 'for the blockchain. "
Although Bank of America appears to have more blockchain patents than any other major bank, it is not alone in this competition.Wells Fargo filed a patent last June that released last week - International Trade Financing the blockchain system, "which states that" a blockchain-based letter of credit ('center') is generated for a trade transaction contract with a seller and buyer. '
As reported by Yahoo! Finance in 2016, the big banks are eager to hire blockchain-related positions.That will be a different issue: most of the banks have announced at this time are pilot tests or partnering with business companies to build blocks Chain banks, such as the asset chain or Ruibo currency. On the other hand, Wal-Mart and IBM have used the blockchain as a ledger to track food shipments.
Moynihan calls it a 'speculative' encryption currency craze for investors eager to buy digital money. 'We will not be involved in trading it, and we have nothing to do with it because it really depends only on what people do subjectively (No real value?) It refers to bitcoin, though it has never been used in his reply.
Obviously, for the moment: Bank of America is the 'everything for' blockchain, but 'will not be involved' in bitcoin.
3. Beijing Intellectual Property Court concluded 125,390 intellectual property cases accounting for 1/5 of the national total
People's Network January 28 (Mengzhu Chi Meng Rui) This morning, the 15th Beijing Municipal People's Congress held its first plenary session of the fourth plenary session of the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court, Yang Wanming, president of the work report.
The report pointed out: Over the past five years, the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court has stepped up efforts to protect intellectual property rights and promoted scientific and technological innovation in accordance with the law. The establishment of a Beijing-based court of intellectual property rights improves the trial system of intellectual property rights and exercises centralized cross-jurisdictional jurisdiction over intellectual property cases and concludes intellectual property cases 125,390 cases, accounting for about 1/5 of the total number of intellectual property cases in the country, concluded 5,299 patent cases and strengthened the protection of the core and advanced technological achievements in the high-tech fields. 30,666 trademark cases were settled and the old Chinese cases involving "Qingfeng Buns" were heard according to law , Sanction counterfeit trademarks, unfair competition, etc. It concluded 70,069 copyright cases and heard cases concerning the right of information network dissemination involving "the tongue on top of China" to ensure the development of cultural and creative industries.
Yang Wanming said that the average number of patent infringement cases filed by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court amounted to 1.41 million yuan, and Beijing High People's Court has worked hard to solve the problems of low infringement costs and high costs of safeguarding rights in the past five years, intensifying sanctions on infringement and giving full consideration to knowledge Property market value, so infringers pay a heavy price.