1.Cool sent four patents to formally contain millet, and millet responded for the first time in five years;
Micronet Hong Kong Report (Reporter Deng Wenbiao)
At the key time node of the Xiaomi Hong Kong stock IPO, Cool officially launched a patent 'attack' to Xiaomi.
On May 11th, Coolpad held a media conference in Hong Kong on the theme of 'Passenger and Xiaomi's patent infringement case'. The micro-net was used as the only cool industry official media invited to participate in the event. Ms. Zhang Na, chief intellectual property officer of Cool Group, said: The choice to initiate a lawsuit against Xiaomi at different times and in different locations is entirely based on the rights holder's rights and interests.
At present, Coolpad has filed a patent litigation with Xiaomi in the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court and the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court, and pointed out that Xiaomi’s production and sale of some millet series phones infringed on Coolpad’s patent rights and required Xiaomi to stop production and sales of some millet series phones. Before the deadline, both Shenzhen Intermediate Court and Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court had officially accepted the case.
Since 2014, Xiaomi has never responded to Coolpad
From 2014, Cool sent a number of warning letters to Xiaomi, which included pointing out that Xiaomi's production and sales of Xiaomi’s mobile phones were suspected of infringing on Coolpad’s patent rights, and proposed negotiation, but Xiaomi did not respond.
Zhang Na said that afterwards, Coolera sent a letter again, and Xiaomi still ignored it. Cooler then filed suit from the legal route.
On January 12, 2018, Yulong Computer Communications Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen Yulong), a subsidiary company of Cool Group, submitted a lawsuit request to the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court and was accepted on January 25, 2018.
The application order includes the requirement that Xiaomi immediately stop production, sales and promised sales, sales infringement of the plaintiff's invention patent rights, and the involved products include Xiaomi 6, Xiaomi Max2, Xiaomi Note3, Xiaomi 5X, Red Rice Note 4X, Xiaomi mix2, red rice note5, red Meter 5plus mobile phone behavior.
On May 3, 2018, Shenzhen Yulong Group, a subsidiary of Cool Group, filed a petition in the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court against the ban. The court was ordered to order Xiaomi to immediately stop the infringement of its patent rights. That is, Xiaomi immediately stopped production, sales, and promised sales of red. Rice Note 4X, millet mix2, millet 6, etc. millet best-selling models.
On May 10, 2018, Shenzhen Yulong sued the Intermediate People's Court of Nanjing Municipality of Jiangsu Province and sued Xiaomi for infringing the invention patent right (the method for implementing the call record interface of the multi-mode mobile communication terminal with patent number ZL200610034036.7), and applied for it. Decided that Xiaomi immediately ceased production, promised, sold, sold infringing patents such as Xiaomi MIX2, Red Rice NOTE5, Red Rice 5PLUS and other mobile products. The lawsuit was accepted on the same day.
'Cool chose to sue more at this point in time, this is a litigation strategy consideration for the litigation itself.' Zhang Na said that so far, Xiaomi has not responded to the infringement of Coolpad's patent rights and neither party has any formal communication.
However, after the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court accepted the patent prosecution of Coolpad on January 25th this year, Xiaomi responded at the time that Xiaomi did not receive any suing documents and pointed out that the fact that Cool was suing Xiaomi for infringement was not clear. In the latest accepted patent case filed by Coolpad, Xiaomi has not yet responded.
Li Yang, professor of intellectual property law and competition law at Sun Yat-sen University School of Law, said at the conference that it would take time for Xiaomi to receive a complaint from the court, and Xiaomi would receive a bill of attorney until the formal hearing period lasted at least six months or even longer.
Double-card dual-standby patents are difficult to evade.
Patent is a problem that can not be ignored in the development and development of mobile phones. Xiaomi has encountered many disputes over mobile phone patents. As early as December 2014, Xiaomi was banned from selling by the Indian market on suspicion of infringing Ericsson’s related patents; in November 2015, the United States The company BlueSpike sued Xiaomi for a large number of products that infringed its patents.
This time, Coolpad sued Xiaomi Communication Technology Co., Ltd., Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd., Xiaomizhijia Business Co., Ltd. Shenzhen First Branch, Xiaomizhijia Business Co., Ltd. Nanjing First Branch Patent Infringement Case, Including Infringement Patent There are four items, the patent names are the collaborative method and interface system of the mobile terminal, the processing method of the new event of the terminal and the application program, the management method of the terminal and the application icon, and the implementation method of the call record interface system of the multi-mode mobile communication terminal.
These four patents are currently valid patents for Coolpad. One of the most familiar patents in the industry is the multi-mode mobile communication terminal call record interface system. This is an important patent for the invention of the dual-card dual-standby Cool, almost all using dual-card dual standby. It is very difficult for the mobile phone to bypass the Coolpad patent.
Coolpad said that the three other patents being sued for this system are system interaction or UI type patents, all of which relate to basic communication, display and interactive functions of mobile phones, which are more difficult to circumvent and substitute.
As early as the beginning of this year, Cool CEO Chiang Chao said that Xiaomi’s mobile phone has infringed on nearly 200 patents of Coolpad Group, but now it is only bringing a lawsuit against several of them. Some of these dual-card dual standby patents, even with the The company's more than 10,000 patents are licensed to cooperate with Qualcomm.
'This is an important accumulation of Coolpad in the mobile phone industry for more than 20 years. It is also the foundation of Coolpad's courage to initiate patent litigation with Xiaomi. 'Thirty years of global mobile phone history, Yulong Communications was established twenty-five years ago, as of April 2018 , The Coolpad Group has submitted more than 13,000 patent applications worldwide, of which 95% are for invention patent applications, more than 2,000 have been authorized, and more than 800 applications for patents related to industry standards have been accumulatively authorized. More than 100 patents.
Cool CEO Chiang Chao said that if a cumulative number of tens of thousands of R&D engineers were to be plagiarized and unwillingly pursued after 25 years of no success, we should reflect on our tolerance and eventually hurt the entire company. National innovation and the future of our future generations.
However, the cost of patent protection is high, the cost of infringement is low, and competition in all IP litigations is behind commercial competition. At present, litigation is still a legal remedy to resolve intellectual property disputes. Cool also revealed that it expects and Xiaomi to find a better solution. .
Although Cool did not disclose the way in which they hoped to reach a consensus after launching a patent suit against Xiaomi, it can be seen that Coolpad is still very much looking forward to finding a common solution with Xiaomi. All this, Xiaomi began to officially respond to Coolpad. As a precondition.
Xiaomi responded for the first time in five years: The stability of Coolpad patents is open to question, invalid requests have been submitted
For the patent lawsuit brought by Coolpad, Xiaomi responded for the first time today that how the stability of several patents for Cool claims rights is open to question, and Xiaomi has submitted invalid requests for several patents that Cool claims.
Xiaomi said that it has noticed that Cool had filed a lawsuit with the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court on January 12, 2018. However, on May 10, 2018, Cool announced that it had applied to the trial court to appeal for a ban, Xiaomi has not yet received Any notice to the court. Xiaomi's business activities are all normal. All mobile phone models are selling as usual.
The company stressed that it will actively respond to Cool's lawsuit behavior, and how the stability of several patents for Cool claims rights are open to question, and has filed invalid requests for several patents that Cool claims, and expects that this can have a legal framework. A fair solution.
Xiaomi, who just submitted an IPO application in Hong Kong, has been challenged by patents. This millet explained the status of his patent. As of March 31 this year, Xiaomi had obtained more than 3,600 patents in mainland China and more than 3,500 registered overseas. , And now there are more than 5,800 items in the application. In addition, Xiaomi has already launched in-depth intellectual property rights cooperation with Qualcomm, Microsoft, Nokia and other companies, including cross-licensing, patent purchases, etc. Xiaomi also said that all are welcome to have truly high quality and effective Patent partner.
Wang Yanhui, the secretary general of China Mobile, said that in the past few years, Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad and other companies have been sending lawyers letters to other mobile phone brands. During this period, Huawei also filed lawsuits and settled against a mobile phone brand. As a patent owner It is understandable that Cool was suing Xiaomi. Of course, before the court's decision, it is still impossible to assert that Xiaomi must infringe on the patent rights of Coolpad. The patent warfare of domestic mobile phone manufacturers is a good thing. It can promote a virtuous circle of industry and accelerate the innovation and development of enterprises. (Proofreading/Small autumn)
2. Always release provocative millet Lenovo Z5 design sketches: really comprehensive screen, 18 patents;
On May 8, Lenovo Group Vice President Chang Cheng announced a new generation of full-screen mobile phones in a very high-profile manner. The proportion of screens may be as high as 95%, and @ Xiaomi’s mobile phone is not willing to fight. It can be said that the concept of 'full screen' is proposed. A provocative millet, but also shows this phone really full screen.
Today, Chang Cheng once again released the design sketch of the new machine, and announced the name of the phone: Lenovo Z5. From the phone naming, the new machine uses the Lenovo brand, once again shows that the ZUK brand return hopeless.
From the design diagram point of view, Lenovo's front of this model is full of screen, no chin without chin without forehead. In addition, from the design of the picture frame may be on the design of the antenna bar, Lenovo Z5 is likely to adopt Metal integrated body design.
At the same time, Chang Cheng stated that Lenovo Z5 has achieved four technological breakthroughs and 18 patented technologies. From previous news, the four technological breakthroughs should include the three major challenges of screen, screen and proactive, antenna clearance. What will be the one more thing left behind?
3. The amount of compensation became a fan Samsung Apple again due to design patents
According to foreign media reports on May 10, the American mobile phone makers Apple Inc. and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. will be required by Samsung’s District Court in San Jose, California, for Apple’s illegal use of three Apple’s design patents and two technology patents. The defense of the payment is defended. The court defense will begin next Monday and will last for one week.
Apple and Samsung’s patent disputes can be traced back to 2011 at the earliest, and even reached the Supreme Court of the United States at the end of 2016. The Supreme Court later decided to send the dispute to the lower court. This court defense is the third time that Apple’s Samsung has been in court in the District Court. defend.
Previous court defenses have determined that Samsung infringed Apple’s patents, including the use of Apple iPhone's square design. At present, the two parties dispute the focus of Samsung's compensation issues. The first two local courts sentenced Samsung to compensate Apple 538 million US dollars and 399 million respectively. The dollar's ruling, but Samsung is hoping to use the US Supreme Court’s decision to change the amount of damage calculated by both parties to reduce their payables. Samsung said that Samsung’s use of Apple’s patents in Apple’s mobile phone is not very useful. The verdict is based on the value of Samsung's entire mobile phone, and a mobile phone has at least 250,000 patents. Therefore, the compensation amount made by the court is not reasonable.
Apple, on the other hand, stated that Samsung’s mobile phones use some of Apple’s mobile phone patents. Therefore, Samsung must make compensation based on the overall value of the mobile phone, because similar mobile phone design styles lead to a decline in sales of Apple’s mobile phones.