According to the report of the Legal Network Daily, recently, LeTV released its own complaints. The data shows that LeTV and its subsidiaries currently involve 198 lawsuits and arbitrations, including 6 as plaintiffs. The total amount involved was 243,806,970.36 yuan. The company's case as a defendant reached 192 cases, involving a sum of 3,305,338,135.48 yuan and 5,376,2370.01 US dollars, equivalent to a total of more than 3.6 billion yuan.
LeTV.com claimed that in the company's sued case, because the larger part of the case had not yet been heard, the company could not accurately determine whether it would affect the company's current profit or future profits.
According to reports, in the case of LeTV as the plaintiff, the defendants included Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd., and Beijing Fengxing Online Technology Co., Ltd. and other internet counterparts. In the case of the rights defending case where the two defendants were jointly filed, the amount involved was 5162. In addition, Zhejiang Huayi Brothers Film Industry Investment Co., Ltd. was listed as a defendant in two lawsuits by LeTV. The case was all a copyright license contract, involving a total amount of 2.55 million yuan.
In addition, the former LeTV's Internet car brand Yi Yi was also on the list of lawsuits, including Beijing Dongfang Cheyun Information Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Yizhi Travel Service Co., Ltd., and Yidao Travel Agency (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. As defendants, all involved in the sale and purchase contract disputes involved a total of 138 million yuan, which is LeTV.com as the plaintiff involved in the highest amount of litigation.
In addition to these six lawsuits, LeTV and its affiliated companies were listed as defendants in the remaining 192 lawsuits. The plaintiffs included not only China Unicom, China Mobile, China Telecom, IBM, CITIC Bank, SF Express, and other large companies. There are also five-star sports media, optical media, mango entertainment and other film and television companies, as well as a large number of advertising, exhibitions, and cultural and creative companies. In these lawsuits, the defendant also included Lemax Electronic Technology (Tianjin) Limited in addition to LeTV. The company, Levision Cloud Computing Co., Ltd., Horgos Lele as the New Generation Culture Media Co., Ltd. etc.
The larger amounts involved include the previously-disclosed contract disputes between Xinli Electronics Co., Ltd. and Le Rongzhixin Electronic Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. and other defendants. The litigation involved a total of RMB 240 million.
2. Millet's five cell phone infringements or will stop selling;
On May 4th, the old-fashioned mobile phone manufacturer Coolpad officially announced that it filed an infringement lawsuit and administrative processing request for Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd. to infringe on its multiple invention patents. It has now filed an application to the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court to rule that the defendant should stop infringing the patent right. Behavior. The infringing products include red rice Note4X, millet 6, millet Max2, millet Note3, millet 5X a total of five popular mobile phone models.
In the past six months, from 'Dual-ADC High-Definition Recording' to 'One Machine Three-Slot', Xiaomi’s mobile phones have been repeatedly used by netizens as 'spitting water', and even the latest series of mobile phones such as Xiaomi MIX2, Redmi Note 5A, Xiaomi 6, etc. Began to cause users to question. According to insiders, many of the original fans of Xiaomi’s mobile phone have also begun to shift to the camp of Huawei, OPPO, VIVO, and Cool.
Frequent infringement disputes
Xiaomi started to enter the mobile phone market in 2011. It sells the first smartphone in the form of an online subscription. With its innovative sales model, innovative mobile operating experience, and a low price advantage of RMB 1999, it is popular with everyone.
However, in recent years, Xiaomi’s mobile phone has not only gradually lost its “innovative” quality advantage, but also has hidden its intellectual property rights in many new mobile phones.
Since September last year, Xiaomi has repeatedly caused infringement disputes due to intellectual property rights issues in new mobile phones. In September 2017, Jiang Yan, the founder of Chongqing Qing Tan Technology Co., Ltd. issued a statement, saying that it was used on the Xiaomi MIX2 mobile phone. 'Dual ADC HD recording' technology is suspected of infringing its own patent rights.
In October 2017, someone posted that Xiaomi’s infringement directly used the Redmi Note 5A map posted by Lei Jun’s microblog to indicate that Cato in this “one machine and three slots” infringed the patent. The other party also threw a copy. patent certificate.
In February 2018, Cool Group issued an announcement stating that many millet eco-chain companies such as Xiaomi Technology infringed its invention patent rights and formally filed a patent infringement suit against Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court.
A few days ago, Cool Company announced that it had filed an application to the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court to rule that the defendant stopped the infringement of the patent right. This time the infringing products include Redmi Note4X, Xiaomi 6, Xiaomi Max2, Xiaomi Note3, and Xiaomi 5X. Mobile phone model. Once the court found Xiaomi company infringement, then the above five millet phone will face the risk of ban sales.
It is understood that these five models are all popular products that Xiaomi has listed in 2017. Its sales performance accounts for an important part of Xiaomi’s annual revenue. Once these mobile phones are banned, Xiaomi will face a huge blow.
Foreign-related disputes have not yet been settled
In fact, Xiaomi's mobile phone intellectual property issue does not stop at home.
As early as 2014, Xiaomi was allegedly infringed by 8 patents owned by Ericsson, including ARM, EDGE, 3G and other related technologies, and was sued by Ericsson in India to the Delhi High Court of India. At that time, in order not to lose the Indian market, Xiaomi took the initiative to 'defend compensation. 'According to the conditions of 'pre-paid INR 100 per device on court deposit', temporary sales of Qualcomm chipsets will continue to be used. For mobile phones equipped with MediaTek chips, they are still in the 'forbidden' status.
In December 2015, Xiaomi Company was also sued by an NPE named Blue Spike in the United States to the Marshall branch of the US District Court for the Eastern District of East Texas. The company accuses Xiaomi of allegedly infringing its patent rights in the United States through smart communication devices sold by Tomtop.
At the same time in 2015, Xiaomi Company was also sued by the largest telecom company in the Netherlands to the Beijing Intellectual Property Court. It is understood that this company holds a large number of 3G-related standard essential patents. February 2018, Beijing Knowledge The property court held a hearing on the case and Royal KPN doubled the claim amount from 9.3 million yuan to 18.6 million yuan, but has not yet pronounced it.
In other words, in addition to a number of mobile phones being prosecuted in China, Xiaomi still has a number of vital patent disputes pending at home and abroad. (Li Chen) Technology Daily
3. Coworth: The continuous decline in inventory turnover involved a number of patent disputes;
Cobos Robotics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Cobos') previously disclosed a prospectus, plans to issue no more than 40.1 million shares, raised funds of 912 million yuan, for an annual output of 4 million home service robot projects, robot Internet Eco-sphere project and international marketing project.
Weekly news reports from stock market analysts noted that although Cobos' domestic sweeping robots have performed well, they have not yet been approved by the more developed overseas markets of the service robotics industry. This is a long way to go, and the stock balance of Cobos remains high. , It began to decline after 2014. Even if it improved in 2017, it did not return to its previous status. Not only that, more than three years, the number of patents of companies 'disappeared' by 75, and the proportion of research and development expenses also went from 2016. Year began to decline.
The flagship product has not been approved by overseas developed markets
Cobos is mainly engaged in the research, development, design, production and sales of intelligent household appliances and related components and parts such as home service robots, clean household appliances, and other related components. It is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of home service robots. Robots, window cleaning robots, air purification robots, housekeeper robots, including a complete family service robot product line and a variety of clean small household appliances product line.
According to the prospectus, from 2014 to 2016 and from January to June 2017, Cobos' operating revenue was respectively 2.314 billion yuan, 2.695 billion yuan, 3.277 billion yuan, and 1.966 billion yuan, which showed a continuous increase. Among them, service robots gradually grew. As a key business of Coworth, they accounted for 38.02%, 51.82%, 57.46%, 53.20% of the operating revenue respectively. The sweeping robots were the main products, accounting for 87.54%, 91.10%, 91.91%, 92.56% of the service robot business revenue.
However, although domestic sweeping robots are eye-catching, Cobos has not yet been recognized by the more developed overseas markets of the service robot industry, and the service robot business depends on the domestic market. From 2014 to 2016 and from January to June 2017, the service robots section The proportion of domestic business in Cobos was 94.05%, 95.67%, 92.40% and 86.72%, respectively.
Inventory turnover continues to decline
According to the prospectus, the company’s inventory for 2014-2016 and January-June 2017 were 351 million yuan, 475 million yuan, 645 million yuan, and 551 million yuan, accounting for 21.77%, 27.00%, 28.66 of the operating costs for the current period, respectively. % and 22.61% (annualized). The carrying amount of inventory remained at a relatively high level. The inventory turnover rate for the same period was 4.88, 4.32, 3.88, and 4.29, which began to decline after 2014. Even if there is improvement in 2017, it will not be able to return. status.
Obviously, the company is also aware of this situation, and said that the end of 2015 inventory products increased 96.57% from the end of the previous year, mainly because the company to prepare for the peak sales at the end of the year, prepared more inventory goods, at the end of the year sales peak and continue to digest. However, in fact, the inventory of goods in 2016 has only increased.
Industry insiders also expressed similar situations that the stock balance was too high, or caused a large amount of capital occupation and affected their normal operations. In addition, if the future inventory prices fell, it would have an adverse effect on the company's operating performance and financial situation. The stock price loss from 2014-2016 was RMB 4.04355 million, RMB 181.739 million and 24.812 million, respectively, and the inventory price loss from January to June 2017 has reached RMB 202.254 million. Bacheng. It is also worth mentioning that, unlike robots and home textile products, electronic products are updated frequently. After a new generation of successful research and development, the value of old models will be greatly reduced.
With the increase in the inventory quantity, inventory turnover days have increased year by year. From 2014 to 2016 and from January to June 2017, the Covos inventory turnover days were 73.72, 83.29, 92.85, and 83.99 respectively. Coworth explained that due to the The proportion of sales on sales has been increasing year by year. This kind of sales model requires a relatively large inventory of products. As a result, inventory turnover days have increased. Inventory turnover days have decreased in the first half of 2017. On the one hand, it is because the mid-year sales season for the company is off-season. At the end of June, the inventory balance at the end of the inventory was relatively low. On the other hand, the company strengthened its sales forecast accuracy and reduced its stocking inventory.
In the high inventory situation, Cobos still plans to raise funds for the annual production of 4 million home service robot project to expand production capacity.
Involving many patent disputes
The prospectus shows that as of June 30, 2017, Cobos and its subsidiaries had 164 domestic invention patents, 270 domestic utility model patents, 151 domestic design patents, and 22 overseas patents, a total of 607 domestic and foreign patents. patent.
Previously, some media reports said that Cowanth Chairman Qian Dongqi had interviewed the media at the end of 2014 and said that as of November 2013, Cobos had applied for 682 patents at home and abroad, including 66 foreign patent applications.
In more than three years, the number of patents in the company 'disappeared' by 75, and the R&D expenses also began to decline from 2016.
In addition to 'disappearing' patents, as of the signing date of the prospectus, there are still a number of pending patent disputes in Coworth including two patent disputes owned by the company, one infringement of another's patent rights and three disputes. Patent dispute as a third person.
Specifically, Dongguan Wanjin Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. proposed the invention patent owned by Kewoss Robotics Technology to the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office in early 2013: The request for the invalidation of the automatic ground handling device (patent number: 200910115030.6). On July 1, 2013, the Patent Re-examination Board of the Intellectual Property Office issued a “Decision of Request for Review of Invalidation Declaration” and decided to maintain the patent right of the patent. After two rounds of trial, the case has been transferred to the Patent Reexamination Board for retrial.
A similar case took place again in 2017. In February 2017, Gao Botong, a natural person, filed an invalidation claim against the Patent Reexamination Board on the invention patent of ZL201410038854.9 under the name of Kovos. At present, the dispute is under review by the Patent Reexamination Board.
In addition, Dyson Technology has a number of product design patent rights disputes owned by Dyson Technology, which together with Coworth Electric, Suzhou Jieshang, Cobos Limited, total compensation of 3 million.
Coworth also stated that if in the related disputes and disputes, the judiciary is finally found to be the fault party or the relevant claim has not been supported by the intellectual property authority, the company may face the risk of financial compensation, the suspension of production of related products, and the abandonment of intellectual property rights. As a result, it adversely affected the company's performance.
4. Taiwanese startups have expanded their patent claims after the settlement in the Apple case in 2017;
In the IPBC Taiwan meeting in mid-April, the cost of managing intellectual property became a key theme for the day. Some corporate speakers said that financial pressure may lead to increased patent monetization activities and to more levels. CyWee is a recent option to implement currency Small Chemicals, the company originally started in the government-funded Taiwan Institute of Industrial Technology (ITRI).
The CyWee business involves wireless streaming media transmission, motion processing and face tracking. According to CyWee's patent infringement lawsuit against Google filed in the Delaware District Court last month, the company was composed of two Taiwanese Institute of Industrial Technology (ITRI) researchers in 2007. Established in the year, they used motion-sensing technology to expand their business. In the past year, the number of patents claimed for Google and the other six large-scale defendants was:
8,441,438 - 3D pointing device and method for compensating its movement 8,552,978 - 3D pointing device and method for compensating rotation of a 3D pointing device
CyWee first involved in patent litigation in 2014. The company filed a patent suit against Apple with the same lawsuit patent. This lawsuit filed in the Northern District Court of California was withdrawn in February 2017 and the parties reached a clear settlement. IAM
5. Huawei's new patent exposure: Smartwatch is expected to integrate into game elements;
Although Huawei has already launched the HUAWEI Watch and Watch 2 series smart watches, this does not hide Huawei’s own entanglement with the wearable device market. Vastly recalling the 14th analyst meeting held by Huawei, Huawei’s vice chairman, rotation CEO Xu Zhijun once said: 'I have been ignorant of what smart phones have to do with smart watches'. I have to say that Xu Zhijun’s remarks are actually quite a bit of a slapstick suspicion, even directly to some extent. Do not look good on the real hammer of smart watches, presumably this kind of honesty is rare in the industry.
However, what does this have to do with it? This does not hinder Huawei's continued efforts to dig deeper into smart watches. Recently, according to foreign media reports from PhoneArena, Huawei recently obtained a patent related to smart gaming watches. Huawei’s future intelligence The watch may incorporate game elements into it.
Of course, as an innovation of the wearable device market, this smart watch also supports self-timer, basic call, video and health tracking functions. In fact, plainly, Huawei's patent may also provide a smart wearable manufacturers New ideas, smart watches can not play, then into the smart watch into the game function?
We all know that for a long time, smart watches have been regarded as an extension of smart phones, and it is difficult to raise consumers' interest in using basic functions of monitoring and sports functions, even though many manufacturers have increased their own smart wearable products. The function of making a call and a message vibrating reminder, but this still does not change the pattern of smart wear tasteless.
Fortunately, Huawei and other vendors still haven’t given up on smart wear, but they are also trying to overemphasize their own wearable devices. Although we are still unclear at what stage of research and development this patent technology is in the end, will Huawei eventually launch this product? Watch? But optimistic thinking, adding elements of the game to smart watches, this can really have! Drive China
6.Samsung’s latest patents are emerging in an endless stream Three-fold phone Galaxy X is expected to debut next year;
According to foreign media reports, more details of the Samsung Galaxy X have recently surfaced, suggesting that the Korean tech giant is using the most revolutionary and boldest equipment ever to further exceed the limit. According to the latest foldable smartphone patent, Samsung seems to be exploring the possibility of actually folding twice a flexible mobile device.
From the newly granted patent, it can be seen that Samsung seems to be trying to improve a design that allows the Galaxy X to fold itself. In a recent patent, two special designs are outlined: One is a folded smartphone, the other One is a 'tri-fold design' device.'
Interestingly enough, both patents appear to be very sophisticated. The single-fold variant of this device is designed without any flaws. Therefore, based at least on these patents, the final design of the Galaxy X begins to look like an uncompromising one. Flexible smartphone.
Perhaps even more impressive is the triple concept of the Galaxy X galaxy. A design feature is a fairly long vertical display that can be folded twice. The three-fold Galaxy X will be folded into itself, similar to the folding style of a three-fold wallet. Interestingly, the user of the device can open a single fold or section, displaying only one-third of the display. This feature can be used to check for notifications or messages.
In addition, a part of the three-fold Galaxy X design can also be used to support smart phones to view content. The device can also be used in a hybrid 'tent mode' where the user can fold the two parts into a triangle to Display a single part of a foldable monitor when standing upright.
As mentioned in the T3 report, there are rumors that Samsung may release Galaxy X. TechWeb sometime in January 2019
7. Apple in-depth sensor technology patent exposure or applied to the future of the iPhone;
Since 2012, Apple has successively registered a number of related technology patents, which clearly shows that they are very interested in this technology. From the patent picture, this technology seems to be prepared for the Mac, but we can also Imagine how it is used on the iPhone, and the latter may be more practical.
Depth maps are useful in many situations. They can not only generate more immersive images on the phone, but also help capture virtual reality content, or enhance the immersion of the game. In addition to the transmitter and the scanner, Apple This system also contains a processor that can use the information gathered by the former to generate depth maps.
Apple is not the only technology company that is studying depth maps. The Spectra camera module developed by Qualcomm is equipped with the latest Xiaolong 845 processor, which can capture up to 10,000 depth points. Facebook is also working with RED to develop a Ultra high-end 360-degree camera that supports depth sensing and 6 degrees of freedom.
According to previous rumors, Apple may also be planning to launch an augmented reality device, or at least consider adding more augmented reality features to the future iPhone, so depth-sensing related technologies are very important to them.
Of course, it is entirely possible that Apple will not use this new technology. Their large-scale technology companies will register a considerable number of patents in case of need, but these technologies will not necessarily be applied to the product. But consider Until Apple has added depth sensing technology such as Face ID to the iPhone, it is true that they may continue to experiment. DigitalTrends