1.LG full screen patent exposure, the screen panel has only one oval notch
Recently, LG passed a screen patent, which shows only a small oval notch on the screen panel, which may be used to accommodate camera modules or other sensors, the specific purpose of which also depends on the handset manufacturer How to choose.
Unfortunately, the patent does not describe the details and does not provide the relevant phone model as a reference.According to previous reports, Apple's upcoming two iPhone will use the screen provided by LG, I do not know whether this patent will be applied On the next generation of iPhone.
At present, the full screen market in full swing, in addition to the iPhone X Liu Hai screen, vivo also released up to 98% screen vivo vivo APEX concept phone.If LG this patent can be put into use, I do not know how to compete in this market?
2. Guangsheng sued Samsung, Skyworth, Gome and other infringement, resulting in a patent was invalid
According to Li Junhui, a researcher at IPR Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, a few days ago, Samsung filed a patent invalidation request against Guangzhou Rising Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Rising'), and the State Intellectual Property Office The Patent Reexamination Board (hereinafter referred to as the 'Patent Reexamination Board') made the examination decision letter of 'declaring the patent null and void'.
It is reported that the name of the patent for the 'audio decoding' patent number 2007101416616, previously considered to be a standard necessary patents.
In July 2017, due to alleged patent infringement, Rising v. Skyworth Group Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Skyworth-RGB Electronics Co., Ltd. and GOME Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Beijing Intellectual Property Court, claiming that over 100 Skyworth TVs infringed on its holdings The two invention patents requested the court to order the three defendants to stop the infringement and compensate for the economic loss and other reasonable expenditures for a total amount of 192.2 million yuan.
On July 5, 2017, the same patent, Rising Company sued Hisense (Hisense Group Co., Ltd. and Qingdao Hisense Electric Co., Ltd.) and Shenzhen Suning Cloud Commerce Sales Co., Ltd. to Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court. Subsequently, Samsung Was sued to Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court.Li Junhui said, according to incomplete statistics, Rising cumulative claim for these three companies about 400 million yuan.
The case information shows that Rising is the inventor of the DRA multi-channel digital audio codec technology, which sued two invention patents as 'audio decoding' and 'audio encoding and decoding system' respectively.
Among them, the 'audio decoding' patent was filed by Risheng on August 17, 2007 and received the authorization on May 20, 2009, which provides a system, a method and an apparatus for decoding audio signals from a frame-based bitstream Technology and others.
The 'Audio decoding' patent is the standard essential patent of the "Multi-channel Digital Audio Codec Specification" (GB / T 22726-2008) ("DRA Standard").
The 'Audio Coding and Decoding System' patent was filed on January 7, 2008 by Rising Inc. and was approved on September 7, 2011. This patent provides systems, methods, and techniques for encoding audio signals, Where the sampled audio signal is divided into frames.
The 'Audio Coding and Decoding System' patent relates to a method and apparatus for decoding television signals encoded with DRA audio codes, the DRA standard entitled "Frame Structure, Channel Coding and Modulation for Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting Systems" (GB-20600-2006) ( Referred to as 'DTMB standard') the mandatory audio standards, TV products are supported by the DRA standard.
It is reported that on August 7, 2017, after being prosecuted by Rising for alleged patent infringement, Samsung filed a patent invalidation request against the Patent Reexamination Board for the patent of 'audio decoding' held by Rising. February 27, 2018 , The Patent Reexamination Board made a censorship decision on the patent in question that was "declared null and void."
At this point, Rising Sheng company sued the relevant audio patents, one has been convicted of invalid.
3. International Intellectual Property Index Report: China ranks No. 25 jumped two places from last year
Recently, the reporter learned from the State Intellectual Property Office that recently, the Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) of the US Chamber of Commerce released the "2018 International Intellectual Property Index Report." The report shows that China ranked 25th in 50 economies with 19.08 points, Up 2 places from 2017. China's IPR environment made substantial progress
From 40 aspects such as patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, commercialization of intellectual property rights, law enforcement, system efficiency, international treaties on accession and ratification, the intellectual property protection environment in 50 economies worldwide was evaluated on 40 indicators . The United States ranked the first in the world with 37.98 points for the sixth year in a row, but its lead over other countries further narrowed. It was only 0.01 points above the number of the UK with the second place and dropped 2 places in the ranking of patent indicators from the previous year , Ranking No. 12.
Among the eight broad categories of indicators, China ranks the top with systematic efficiency (No. 16) and patent-related rights and restrictions (No. 20). In the context of trademark rights and restrictions (No. 29) and intellectual property The ranking of the two categories in the law enforcement (No. 32) rankings has risen over the previous year.
In terms of patent indicators in particular, the score improved from 5.5 points in the previous year to 5.5 points (a total of 8 points), including the period of patent protection, the patentability of computer-related inventions, the legislative standards for patent products and technical compulsory licenses, Including the PPH cooperation mechanism, etc. The other eligibility indicators include the duration of trademark protection, the transparency of enforcement of customs intellectual property rights, cooperation in enforcement of intellectual property rights, education and training and awareness raising, And ratify international conventions such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The report believes that China is making substantive progress in building an intellectual property environment for the 21st century. First, reform in the areas of patents and copyrights has strengthened the protection and enforcement effect. Second, governments at all levels and law enforcement agencies pay more attention to intellectual property Thirdly, the research institutes and individuals have significantly improved their awareness of and use of intellectual property rights. The report also pointed out that there are still some shortcomings in the construction of the intellectual property environment in China, including barriers to market access and commercialization of intellectual property rights.
In addition, the analysis found that the report shows strong appealing expression attributes.As the world's largest commercial alliance, the American Chamber of Commerce represents the interests of more than 3 million enterprises, chambers of commerce and industry associations nationwide, including a large number of large pharmaceutical companies, For example, the report considers that China has formulated and implemented policies and guidelines on deepening the reform of the examination and approval system for drugs, encouraging the innovation of medical devices for medicines, and expanding the scope of drugs Measures such as the scope of the protection of data initiatives on China's index ranking rose has played an important role in China Economic Net
4. How China and Europe and the United States to compete for intellectual property? The highest law response
How to conduct better competition and cooperation in the field of intellectual property between China, the United States, and the European powers? How can we better protect intellectual property rights and protect their intellectual property? Based on this, the Court of Trial of Intellectual Property of the Supreme People's Court Song Xiaoming said on the 28th that in judicial trials, the people's court always upholds the principle of equal protection.
State Council Information Office held a press conference today. Tao Kaiyuan, Vice President of the Supreme People's Court, introduced the "Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Reform and Innovations in the Trial of Intellectual Property Rights," and answered reporters' questions.
At the press conference, a reporter asked: With the progress of science and technology in China nowadays, more and more competitions and cooperation are being made with the major scientific and technological fields in the United States and Europe, including intellectual property rights. More and more, more and more, China and the United States and Europe How can advanced advanced nations compete better and cooperate? How can we better protect intellectual property and protect their intellectual property?
In response to the above questions, Tao Kaiyuan said that China has established a legal system and system of intellectual property that conforms to Chinese characteristics and all laws of the intellectual property rights are in place.
At the same time, great efforts have also been made in the field of law enforcement and administration of justice, with great achievements made. Three intellectual property courts have been established and three intellectual property courts have been established. This is not something Western countries have.
In addition, Song Xiaoming, president of the IP Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court, also introduced that the Chinese government strictly abides by the international conventions and international treaties to which it has acceded or promised.
In judicial trials, the people's court always upholds the principle of equal protection and all judicial decisions made by China are open to the public and are open and fair.
'We have always advocated the principle of open and equal protection of equality', Song Xiaoming stressed.
5. Zhejiang University, Shenzhen University and Chinese Academy of Sciences have applied for blockchain patents
Set micro-mesh news, according to foreign media reports, some of the country's top public universities are stepping up the development of some blockchain patent applications.
According to the latest patent application data disclosed by China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) on February 16 and February 23, Zhejiang University, Shenzhen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have applied for some blockchain patents, which also shows The interest of domestic academic institutions in the area of blockchain research and development is growing day by day, and the related research investment will be further expanded.
According to a record released by state intellectual property, Zhejiang University hopes the patent application is a cloud-based blockchain system to facilitate cross-border payment transactions, the school explained in its patent filings that the blockchain system will Record transaction requests from payment originators without trading through a third party as a trustee, all transactions are recorded in decentralized blockchain ledger supported by the distributed cloud server.
In addition, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Beijing, has applied for a system that can 'simultaneously support both public, private and affiliate blockchains'.
On the other hand, the patents applied by Shenzhen University are 'more popular' and their patents are mainly used to protect the intellectual property rights of artists and they hope to use blockchain technology as a means of marking and tracking their works. If the patent can be fully realized, The system also provides support for tamper-resistant artwork trading systems.
Meizu suddenly whim! The latest patent can make a full screen mobile phone bid farewell 'bangs' design
Set microblogging news, microblogging blog @ Digital chat station revealed that Meizu just apply for a full screen patent to graphene (flexible) screen as a carrier, the front camera, light perception and other components integrated in the screen, so that Achieve high-screen accounting for a full screen design.
It is reported that the patent's specific content: the phone equipped with a graphene flexible screen, the front camera and other components hidden in the bottom of the screen.Thus, similar to the iPhone X bangs can disappear, the phone's screen Than can be further improved, bringing a more visual impact of the perception.
However, it should be pointed out that Meizu this full screen mobile phone is still in the concept stage, the industry's graphene screen research and development has just begun. Graphene screen to achieve mass production, OLED screen and achieve similar market position, but also quite A long way to go.
In fact, Meizu is not the world's first mobile phone manufacturer that uses graphene flexible screen.As early as the 12th Chongqing Hi-Tech Fair Pavilion in 2016, a technology company in Chongqing developed the world's first flexible graphene Smart-screen screen smart phone, the biggest feature of this phone is to have a complete communication capabilities, and is a wearable, touch-enabled smartphones.But subject to the yield problem, at the time only as a display technology exhibition, failed to Production.
