3. Gathering micro-network news, the European Patent Office has received Apple's newly submitted glass cell phone patent application documents.
The Patently Apple website pointed out that Apple's research and development of glass mobile phones has been going on for about seven years, and the first patent appeared in 2011. The new document shows that not only the body but also the mobile phone components will be made of glass, the inside of the iPhone, including the circuit Board, battery, etc., can be fixed on it.
Mobile phones can be installed with either a rigid display or a flexible display with a multilayer adhesive structure. This technology may be used not only for smartphones, but also for other Apple devices, from smart watches to computers. Whether the technology can become The reality is not yet known.
2. Huawei: Accumulatively granted 74,307 patents
April 26 is the World Intellectual Property Day. Huawei officially announced that as of December 31, 2017, Huawei accumulatively authorized 74,307 patents; applied for 64,091 Chinese patents, and had 48,758 foreign patent applications, of which more than 90% were invention-type. patent.
Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, said: 'Over the years, Huawei has insisted on R&D investment, encouraged knowledge innovation, and promoted the development of science and technology. We will continue to work hard to protect intellectual property!'
On March 30th, Huawei released its 2017 annual report showing that Huawei's sales revenue in 2017 was 603.6 billion yuan, up 15.7% year-on-year; net profit was 47.5 billion yuan, up 28.1% year-on-year. Cash flow from operating activities was 96.3 billion, up 95.7% year-on-year. %.
In 2017, Huawei's R&D staff numbered approximately 80,000, accounting for 45% of the company's total. R&D expenditures amounted to RMB 89.7 billion, accounting for approximately 14.9% of total revenue. The accumulated R&D expenses over the past decade exceeded RMB 394 billion.
Globally, Huawei’s investment in R&D is ranked third, second only to Amazon and Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
Huawei said that in the next decade, it will continue to increase investment in technological innovation at a scale of more than US$10 billion per year, actively open cooperation, attract, cultivate top talent, and strengthen exploratory research to better enable digitalization and intelligence. Transformation. Fast Technology
3. Huawei v. Samsung Interactive Technology Patent Infringement Claims 80 Million
The reporter learned from the Higher People's Court of Fujian Province this morning that, in 2017, the courts of Fujian province had handled 9,256 intellectual property dispute cases of various kinds and completed 8640 cases, which was an increase of 73.14% and 90.06% respectively from 2016. The Higher Institute of Fujian Province also returned The "White Paper on the Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Fujian Courts" was issued and selected from the intellectual property cases concluded by the courts in the province in 2017 as new, complex, difficult and typical cases with greater social influence.
Wu Yanfeng, a member of the Fujian Provincial Higher People’s Court and a deputy dean of the Fujian Provincial High People’s Court, said that in civil trials of intellectual property rights, Fujian courts at all levels followed the mechanism of recognition of infringement damages based on compensation and supplemented by punishment, and further intensified damage compensation, giving rights holders Provide sufficient judicial remedies, focus on breaking the 'low compensation' issue of intellectual property rights infringement lawsuits, reduce the cost of rights protection, make the infringers pay enough torts, and strive to create a legal atmosphere that does not dare infringement and is unwilling to infringe.
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (“Huawei”) v. Huizhou Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as “Huizhou Samsung Corp.”), Tianjin Samsung Communications Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tianjin Samsung Corp.”), and Samsung (China) Investment Co., Ltd. ( Referred to as "Samsung (China) Co., Ltd.", Fujian Quanzhou Huayuan Telecom Co., Ltd., and Quanzhou Pengrun GOME Electric Co., Ltd. infringed the invention patent dispute dispute, the Fujian court accurately identified the infringement subject of the interactive technology method patent and supported Huawei. The company claims 80 million yuan.
Huawei Corporation has the patent right of patent number ZL201010104157.0 'a processing method and user equipment that can be applied to the display of terminal components' (referred to as the involved patent). Among them, the patent involved has two independent claims, claims 1 and 9. Huawei’s claim for mobile terminals such as 23 mobile phones and tablet PCs produced by Huizhou Samsung, Tianjin Samsung, and Samsung (China) Co., Ltd. used patent claims 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14 The technical proposal constitutes patent infringement. Huawei provided evidence of the sales volume of 23 mobile phones involved in the 2014 to 2016 period, claiming that the amount of the alleged infringing product was huge in sales, the patent involved in the case had a high contribution to profits, and the claim for compensation for economic losses was 80 million yuan.
The Quanzhou Intermediate People's Court held that the patented technology solution involved in the case could be directly reproduced through the simple operation of the alleged infringing product. The alleged infringing product falls into the scope of protection of the corresponding patent claims and constitutes patent infringement. With regard to the compensation amount, Huawei The notarized IDC data was submitted to support the sales volume of the mobile terminals involved. In the case of Huizhou Samsung Corporation and others with the burden of proof, when calculating the number and sales amount of the mobile terminals involved in the production and sales of the three defendants, Huawei Corporation could provide evidence The data in the table is considered as a benchmark, and is fluctuating as appropriate.
In addition, the court considered that the patent in question is an invention patent that is still in its effective period, has a high degree of innovation, and is a non-standard essential patent, which has a huge impetus for the intelligentization of mobile terminals. The three defendants such as Huizhou Samsung have joint implementation. Infringement is subjective and malicious, and it is a global leader in the manufacture of smart mobile terminals and sales. The number of models of infringing mobile terminals involved in the sale are numerous, and the duration is long. The amount of sales and the profits obtained are huge. The amount of compensation should be reasonably determined above the maximum amount of statutory compensation, and it should support Huawei’s claim of 80 million yuan.
In the second instance, the Higher People's Court of Fujian Province held that there were acquisition modules, processing modules, and other related modules in the alleged infringing products. Samsung’s Huizhou Samsung and Tianjin Mobile’s manufacturing of mobile terminals with corresponding modules were the acts of manufacturing infringing products. .
According to the trial presentation, the accused infringing product displays the first page after initial setup after power-on, slides to display the second page, and after long pressing the icon, the page zooms out and reveals a part of the hidden page on the right side, and can move the icon to the hidden page. The user can achieve the above effects through the initial settings of the boot, sliding, long press and other operations. It can be verified that the state Samsung company, Tianjin Samsung Corporation, has preliminarily fixed the technical solution adopted by the patent involved in the form of the corresponding software command in the module. The mobile terminal may obtain an indication message that the component is in a pending state, and perform a reduction processing on the display area displayed on the screen in the container according to the indication message, so that the screen displays the above-mentioned area after the display area is reduced. The hidden area of the container can be moved to a hidden area. This behavior belongs to the behavior of using a patented method.
The court of second instance held that the patent involved is not a method patent of the operation procedure, but is a display processing method of the mobile terminal to the component. Therefore, the user's long press and other operations are not the use of the patent involved. Huizhou Samsung, Tianjin Samsung Company manufactures the sued infringing product. In the process, it sets up corresponding function modules, pre-cures the corresponding software commands in the module, belongs to the use of patented methods and manufactures infringing products. The court of second instance, on the basis of adding a mobile phone omitted by the court of first instance, decided to dismiss Huizhou. The appeal of Samsung, etc., was upheld.
According to Yang Jianmin, head of the Intellectual Property Division of the Fujian Provincial High Court, this case is a typical case of the infringement subject identified in the patent infringement of the interactive technology method. The use of the patent constitutes infringement, and each step of the patented technical solution to be claimed is claimed. Realized.
Yang Jianmin said that in interactive technology method patents, product manufacturers often refer to user operations as the basis for patents, claiming that users are the users, and product manufacturers are not the subject of infringement. This case identifies the patents involved by interpreting the patent claims involved. The method patent involved is a method patent for displaying and processing components by a mobile terminal. The technical solutions involved do not include user operations, and the user is not the infringing subject of the patent method. The product manufacturer applies the technical solutions of the involved patents accordingly. The form of the software command solidifies the behavior in the module, so that the product can realize each step of the patented technology program during the operation. This kind of behavior belongs to the behavior of using the patent method. Therefore, the referee in this case is the infringement subject of the patent of the interactive technology method. The judgment has a good enlightenment significance.
4. Cisco Obtains Patent Applied to Bitcoin Mining
Bianews April 26 news, According to coindesk report, network technology giant Cisco won a patent that can be applied to bitcoin mining process on Tuesday.
It is reported that Cisco submitted a system patent application for 'Crowdsourcing Cloud Computing' in September 2015. According to the USPTO, the patent document describes how users allocate their idle resources for cloud applications. The program creates dedicated computing power. Then the cloud application will be used for various purposes. Cisco states:
'This model is applicable to other aspects, providing distributed processing and services that can be optimized for speed, quantity, scale and resiliency, cost and regulatory compliance - for example, distributed community security systems, or clusters, urban or municipal related services. ...' One of the cases involved bitcoin mining, which may be very computationally intensive.
Cisco also stated that 'service providers can use geographical distribution to offload or optimize network loading and to re-sell large-scale, low-cost computing and storage capabilities.' It is reported that the company also applied for patents for other uses of the blockchain. This includes a patent that can use this technology to track group chat data. Bianews
5. Understanding the related patented technologies in domestic full-screen mobile phones
The comprehensive screen is not only an innovation in the appearance of the mobile phone screen, but also faces various design and manufacturing process difficulties such as the handset, the position of the front camera, and the special-shaped cutting of the corresponding screen, how to solve the problem of fingerprint recognition, etc. Found that domestic mobile phone manufacturers currently carry out related patent layouts around the screen of the opposite sex cut, earpiece design, fingerprint identification, front camera, display control technology.
Screen profile cutting technology
In order to achieve an ultra-high screen ratio of more than 80%, a full-screen mobile phone often adopts an ultra-narrow frame design. Compared to a conventional mobile phone screen with four sides being right-angled, an ultra-narrow frame with a right-angled design will allow the screen to withstand a greater drop when it is dropped. The impact will cause the mobile phone to break down more easily. Therefore, the full-screen mobile phone requires a high degree of special-shaped cutting of the screen. On the one hand, special cuts are made at the four corners of the screen to prevent broken screens, and on the other hand U-cuts need to be made at the top of the screen. Provides space for front-facing cameras, distance sensors, microphones and other components.
OPPO has applied for a special-shaped comprehensive screen design patent as early as January 9, 2017. It includes U-shaped, semi-circular, square and other top designs and has been authorized. The following figure shows the OPPO design patent (ZL2017300075182 ) The design perspective of a solution.
Handset technology
Conventional mobile phone handsets often use a sound generating structure that vibrates the diaphragm. It is necessary to open a hole in the front panel of the electronic device to transfer sound to the outside of the electronic device. This will occupy a limited space on the panel of the electronic device and the front panel is opened. Will affect the appearance of the machine.
In order to solve the handset hole problem of the full-screen mobile phone, the Xiaomi MIX2 placed the sounding unit at the bottom of the screen. The receiver is positioned at the back of the screen. The sound from the speaker located at the bottom of the screen is transmitted to the handset area at the top of the screen through a catheter. The picture shows the specification of the patent application (CN2017101935895) submitted by Xiaomi in 2017 for the above technologies.
Xiaomi company uses a piezoelectric ceramic vibrating sound structure, the vibration element is assembled inside the outer frame of the mobile phone shell, leaving a fine slit at the top of the forehead of the mobile phone as a through hole for sound transmission. Through the above technical solutions, it can not only avoid the electronic equipment. The opening of the front panel is conducive to improving the screen share of the electronic device, and at the same time, the conduction path of the vibration generated by the piezoelectric ceramic sound-emitting element inside the device can be shortened, thereby reducing the volume of the piezoelectric ceramic sound-emitting module under the same conditions. To optimize the interior space of electronic devices.
Unlock technology
Full screen mobile phones In order to maximize the screen share, the design of the front panel will inevitably face some changes. For example, the cancellation or rearward movement of the Home key will change the existing fingerprint identification and unlocking methods. For this reason, the iPhone X uses facial recognition instead. Fingerprint unlocking. But before the iPhone X, Apple has been using the front press-type sapphire cover fingerprint unlocking program. Apple has always integrated the entire fingerprint scanning system in the phone's Home key, because the traditional fingerprint sensor for fingerprint information dissemination The material of the medium and the thickness of the cover plate are very strict.
Vivo's full-screen mobile phone took the lead in the use of under-the-screen fingerprint recognition technology. The difficulty of fingerprint identification technology under the screen lies in the stacking of optical fingerprints under the display screen. The photosensitive element accepts fingerprint information at least through the display screen and the glass cover plate. Serious refraction and scattering occur during the return of the glass cover, resulting in the inability of the fingerprint image to be clearly imaged by the optical fingerprint chip. Vivo's full-screen mobile phone not only incorporates Synaptics' under-the-screen fingerprint sensor, but also in 2017. A patent application entitled 'An Optical Fingerprint Component and Mobile Terminal' (CN2017108973775) was submitted. This patent application is one of the core patent applications of Vivo's protection of under-the-screen fingerprint recognition technology. The technology is adopted in the photosensitive element and transparent cover plate. The collimating layer is disposed between the light emitted from the second surface of the transparent cover plate to be converted into collimated light to improve the conduction angle of the light, so as to enhance the sharpness of the fingerprint on the photosensitive element, thereby improving the fingerprint of the optical fingerprint component. Recognition function. Through the above technology, the user only needs to press the fingerprint pattern on the screen and it can be displayed on the screen. Now unlock, pay and other functions.
Front camera technology
In order to increase the screen share, Apple's iPhone X canceled the Home button on the front of the camera. However, the face unlocking program that replaces fingerprint unlocking makes the iPhone X more dependent on the front camera. Therefore, the iPhone X also has to use the 'Hai Haiping' depression design. To solve the problem.
In order to solve the problem of occupying the full screen space of the front camera, Vivo has invented the lifting camera technology. The following figure shows the drawing of the patent application (CN2017106012190) filed by vivo in relation to the lifting camera technology. The technology is adopted on the vivo APEX. The liftable camera can be lifted within 0.8 seconds of the user's turn-on function, providing a new solution to the problem of the front-facing camera occupying the full screen space.
Display Control Technology
Alien comprehensive screen also brings many new problems to the user's visual experience. For example, how to display the photos taken, how to display the rotation of the photos, and how to save after screenshots; another example, the photos taken by the alien full-screen mobile phone are placed on When a non-profiled full-screen mobile phone is displayed, the photograph should be displayed again. Therefore, the screen display of the alien-shaped full-screen mobile terminal requires many new improvements over the conventional screen.
The following figure shows the drawings of OPPO's 2017 profiled full-screen display control technology patent application (CN2017109418153). The technology can adjust the display mode according to different target scenes, and display the contents of the display screen to be displayed according to the target rules. The method can solve the display problem of the special-shaped screen and give the user a better visual display experience.
At present, the smart phone industry is beginning to enter the era of full screen, and all manufacturers are trying their best to make their products close to the overall screen. However, due to the large size of the camera, the high response to light requires the front camera. Hidden is still technically difficult to achieve. Even an industry leader like Apple needs to compromise its current technical difficulties through the sag design of Liu Haiping. From a heterogeneous screen to a truly comprehensive screen, China's mobile phone manufacturers need to From the perspective of the structure design of the screen camera, the display effect of the screen, the shooting effect of the camera under the screen, etc., to achieve technological breakthroughs, as soon as possible for the next generation of products to do a good layout of the patent. (State Intellectual Property Office Patent Office Patent Examination Collaboration Beijing Center Chen Jiawei) China Electronics News
6. Taiwan's invention patent application AUO squeezed to win the championship, and MediaTek second
The Intellectual Property Bureau of Taiwan announced the trend of intellectual property rights in the first quarter of this year. In the invention patent application part, AUO applied for 133 cases, an increase of 129% year-on-year, and returned to the first place in the local Taiwan region two years later; MediaTek took 100 pieces. In the second place, Changsheng TSMC ranked third with 97 items. It is noteworthy that Gwangyang Industrial ranked first for the first time, ranking at 10th place, increasing by 825% year-on-year. The highest rate company.
The total number of applications for three types of patents in the first quarter of this year was 17,674, an increase of 0.03% year-on-year, of which 11,420 were invention patents, an increase of 2% year-on-year, and they had continued to grow for five quarters. The number of design patents was 1,938, an annual increase of 5%, and new types of patents were 4,316. , Decline 7%; The number of trademark registration applications 20,210, an annual increase of 7%, for six consecutive quarters of positive growth, in the past more than a year, invention patents and trademark applications have shown a steady growth trend.
In the invention patent application part, 4081 in Taiwan, an increase of 9%, is growing for 6 consecutive quarters; foreigners 7339, from positive to negative, annual decrease of 1%, foreigners, with 3648 in Japan, 1608 in the United States .
The number of design patent applications was 1,938, an increase of 5% year-on-year, ending with a negative growth rate for the third quarter. The first quarter saw negative growth, with 1049 cases in Taiwan and 889 foreigners, which increased by 10% and 1% respectively. Taiwan's growth rate was rapid.
Taiwanese corporations have a dazzling performance in patent applications for inventions. According to the types of applicants, there are 3013 applications, 355 colleges and universities, and 126 research institutions, an increase of 10% and 11% respectively over the same period of the previous year. 17%, both have a double digit growth.
In the corporate sector, AUO applied for 133 applications, an increase of 129% year-on-year; MediaTek 100 increased by 20% year-on-year; TSMC 97 decreased by 27% year-on-year, separating two or three; Acer 78, an increase of 28% year-on-year, ranking fourth , Hon Hai 70 year minus 10% ranks fifth; HTC, ITRI, Heshuo, Zhonghua, Guangyang Industry, Wistron is divided into six to ten.
In the tertiary institutions, with the exception of Tsinghua University, which had a 43% decrease compared to the same period of last year, all the remaining schools have grown up. In particular, 23 universities and colleges applying for the highest number of applications have grown up, with a growth rate of 130%; 229 applications for public and private schools 126, which accounted for 65% of the total applications for colleges and universities, 35%, and the ratio is about 2:1.
In the research institutions, the number of ITRIs (50) was the largest, which was 19% higher than the same period of last year. The top five applicants except for the Academia Sinica had decreased compared with the same period of last year, and the remaining applications increased by 19%~333%. .
Foreign patent inventors applied for Qualcomm's ranking in the application for invention patents, and the top five foreign patent applicants for invention patents were Qualcomm (335), Materials (116), Tokyo Power (100), Fujifilm (79), and Alibaba ( In addition to the sharp decrease in the number of Alibaba.com, the remaining companies have grown, with Qualcomm growing up to 133%. In the top ten patent applications for inventions, half (6) were Japanese companies, and their layout in Taiwan was positive.
The number of applications for trademark registration continued to grow, and it was growing for six consecutive quarters. The number of trademark registration applications for 20210 in the first quarter increased by 7% year-on-year, and it was growing for six consecutive quarters.
This, foreign applicants have grown, especially foreigners grew 22% to reach a new high, the number of domestic applicants 14,258, foreigners 5952, respectively, increased by 1%, 22%, foreigners applications have grown significantly.
The number of applications for foreign top 5 countries/regions is growing. The foreigners’ section is highest in Japan (1177), followed by mainland China (1155), United States (1045), South Korea (367), Hong Kong (320), foreign applications for the top five countries/regions have double-digit positive growth, especially in Japan, up 34%.
7. Look at China Communications Patent again on Intellectual Property Day: Quantity and Quality
Today, we ushered in the 18th World Intellectual Property Day. The theme of this year's World Intellectual Property Day is 'The driving force of change: women's participation in innovation and creativity'.
As we all know, the standards of the communications industry are the supreme technology industries, and patents are the key among them. Women play an important role in mobile communications standards, 5G and other patents.
Today, we ushered in the 18th World Intellectual Property Day. As we all know, the communications industry is a standard-oriented technology industry, and patents play an important role.
In recent years, many telecommunications industry companies have attached importance to intellectual property rights, and their global patent rankings have continued to rise. However, on the one hand, many Chinese companies are also frequently harassed by patents. Patent competition has become the focus of corporate competition.
Build a patent moat
More and more companies are aware of the value of innovation. They are reflected in their investment in research and development, and their emphasis on patents.
The data show that in 2017, the amount of intellectual property creation in China increased. The annual patent applications for invention reached 1.382 million, an increase of 14.2% year-on-year, ranking the first in the world for seven years in a row; The number of PCT international patent applications received was 51,000, a year-on-year increase. 12.5%, ranks second in the world; the number of patents invented per 10,000 population reached 9.8. The number of applications for trademark registration received 5.748 million, an increase of 5.72% year-on-year, ranking first in the world for 16 years in a row. There were 14.92 million registered trademarks. The number of applications for international trademark registration for Madrid trademarks submitted by applicants in China was 4,810, ranking third in the world. Works, computer software copyright registrations reached 2.002 million, 745,400, respectively, a year-on-year increase of 25.15%, 82.79%.
In 2017, the top ten enterprises for invention patent grants in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) were: State Grid Corporation of China (3622), Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (3293), China Petrochemical Corporation (2567) , BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (1845), ZTE Corporation (1699), Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (1454), Zhuhai Gree Electric Co., Ltd. (1273), Guangdong Oupo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. The company (1222 pieces), China National Petroleum Corporation (1008 pieces) and SMIC International (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (862 pieces).
Last year, Huawei, LeTV, ZTE, Guangdong Oupo and Xiaomi ranked the top ten in China's invention patent applications.
Four characteristics of invention patents
According to the relevant person in charge of the State Intellectual Property Office in the press briefing at the beginning of the year, the data relating to the invention patents of China in 2017 mainly presented four characteristics.
First, there was a steady flow of patent creation. The number of domestic invention patent applications and authorizations increased by 15.4% and 8.2% respectively from 2016; the number of invention patents per 10,000 population reached 9.8, an increase of 1.8 from the end of 2016.
Second, the dominant position of domestic enterprises' innovation has been further consolidated. The proportion of companies in domestic invention patent applications and ownership has reached 63.3% and 66.4%, respectively, and the contribution of the company to the growth of domestic invention patent applications has reached 73.5%.
Third, China’s enterprises’ ability to deploy overseas patents continued to increase. In 2017, there were 44 domestic companies that filed more than 100 PCT international patent applications in the year, an increase of 18 from 2016.
Fourth, the gap between patent layout and foreign countries in some areas. Among the 35 technology areas divided by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the number of domestic invention patents in 2017 was higher than that of foreign invention patents in China, up to 30, compared to 2016. One more, but from the perspective of maintaining the number of invention patents held for more than 10 years, the number of domestic still in the 29 technical fields is less than that of foreign countries.
In this regard, industry experts said that it is necessary to soberly realize that patents are not just competitions but quality of competitions. Wang Lei, the Intellectual Property Development Research Center of the State Intellectual Property Office, said in an interview with the “Communications Industry News” (Net). According to the characteristics of the communications industry patents, according to the order of importance, the underlying technology, the standard framework technology, and the application technology guaranteed to be realized. The deficiency in the underlying technology patents is the most urgent problem to be solved in the future development of China's communications industry.
Tao Xinliang, a professor at the Institute of Intellectual Property at Shanghai University, said that the overall improvement of patents in China's communications industry does not come overnight. He said that there is a one-sided pursuit of performance projects in intellectual property strategy, and the pursuit of quality must be pursued from the pursuit of quantity in intellectual property strategy. Change, we should grasp the direction of future core technologies. Communication Industry Network