Beijing Yirui Xinxin’s lawyer letter pointed out that recently, the company discovered that products bearing the Suzhou Spirui trademark appeared on the market. After comparison, these products were the same or similar to the design patents related to the Italian sharp white box and were suspected to constitute Beijing Yi Rui infringes on the newly created patent right.
In this regard, Suzhou Sprue responded that the Suzhou SPREI product did not infringe the patented product appearance rights of Beijing Yi Rui's newly created product, and Beijing Yi Rui mentioned that the Suzhou SPRUI product scans the 'small white box' from From the exterior to the technology, Suzhou Spurui has complete intellectual property rights and core technologies. Beijing Yi Rui Xinchuang mentioned the Suzhou SPRUI product scan code 'white box' and Beijing Yi Rui's new white box appearance patent There are significant differences in the appearance of rights and there is no infringement.
According to public information, Beijing Yirui Xinchuang was established in July 2002. It is a member of the China Association for Automatic Identification, and has many years of experience in the development and research of automatic image recognition technology. It owns in the field of automatic identification and optical-mechanical integration. A number of independent intellectual property rights technology products have been developed in 2008. In recent years, it has become a widely used self-service scan code payment device, and services such as WeChat payment, Alipay, UnionPay Commerce, and US group mobile payment. platform.
Established in February 2012, Suzhou SPREI is a technology company mainly engaged in the development of two-dimensional code scanning reading equipment and machine vision inspection equipment.
For this dispute, Liu Gang, founder of the China Payment Network, said that the incident was mainly a matter of appearance patent disputes. It was not a technical patent dispute. The appearance of a patent was more subjective than a technical patent dispute, and they often fell into disgust. No matter who wins or loses, it has achieved certain marketing effects due to the market's attention and proliferation.
At the end of 2017, the Central Bank issued the “Notice on Issuing Barcode Payment Service Specifications (Trial)” and supporting technical safety specification documents “Barcode Payment Security Technical Specifications (Trial)” and “Barcode Payment Terminal Technical Specifications (Trial)”. It will be implemented on April 1, 2018.
For the sake of preventing security risks, the central bank classifies the barcode payment services to classify risk prevention capabilities, makes a single-day payment limit of 500 yuan for 'static barcodes', and encourages the use of 'receipt codes' with higher security risk protection levels. The method means that the payee reads the dynamic bar code on the mobile terminal of the payer to realize the payment through a professional QR code scanning machine.
In this context, the bar code automatic reading equipment industry ushered in development. At the same time, it also brought about patent disputes.