Earlier this year, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. filed a lawsuit against US chip giant Micron, referring to some of its SSD solid state drives, which infringed patent rights in memory products and demanded that the court banned sales. Now, Jinhua has won the case!
Jinhua is an advanced integrated circuit manufacturer jointly established by Fujian Electronic Information Group and Jinjiang Energy Investment Group Co., Ltd., and has cooperated with Taiwan UMC to invest US$ 5.65 billion in Jinjiang City, Fujian Province. 300mm memory fab production line, developing advanced memory technology and process technology, and manufacturing and sales of related products.
Jinhua IC has been included in China's '13th Five-Year' integrated circuit major productivity layout plan, aiming to become a DRAM memory enterprise with advanced technology and independent intellectual property system.
Jinhua believes that Micron manufactures, manufactures, processes, imports, uses, sells, promises to sell the Crucial MX300 525GB 2.5-inch solid state drive, DDR4-2133 8GB notebook memory and other products without legal and effective authorization, allegedly infringing Jinhua patents .
On January 19 this year, Jinhua filed a lawsuit against Micron for the related infringing products, and filed a complaint with the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court, requesting that Meiguang immediately stop infringing the Jinhua patent, including but not limited to stop processing, use, import. , sales, promise to sell any infringing products infringing our patents, immediately destroy all infringing products and processing of inventories, use all relevant equipment and other equipment of infringing products, And requested compensation amount of up to 196 million yuan.
On July 3, the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court ruled that Micron Semiconductor Sales (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. immediately stopped selling, imported more than ten Yingruida SSDs, memory modules and related chips, and deleted the promotion of the above products on its website. Advertising, purchase links and other information.
At the same time, the court ruled that Micron Semiconductor (Xi'an) Co., Ltd. immediately stopped manufacturing, selling, and importing several memory products.
According to Jinhua’s news, Micron's infringing products include the MX500 2TB, 1TB, 500GB, 250GB 2.5-inch SSD, and related chips.
According to foreign media CNBC, there are a total of 26 products that Micron is banned.
Jinhua emphasized that Jinhua’s patents were authorized in 2009 and announced to the outside world in 2012. As a world-renowned integrated circuit company, Micron has a top-notch patented technical team, and it is impossible to understand the Jinhua patents. The scope of protection, but without the legal and effective authorization, will also use the patent in question from the unknown.
Secondly, Micron knows that the previously sold MX 300 SSD has infringement concerns, and continues to use the technical scheme of infringement of Jinhua patents on the current popular MX 500 series solid state hard drives.
In addition, Micron has caused irreparable harm to Jinhua: Micron disclosed in its 2017 annual report that its sales in China amounted to US$10.4 billion, accounting for more than 50% of total revenue, and the infringing products in this case have extensive use. With long-term nature, Jinhua cannot prohibit the continued use of sold infringing products in thousands of households, causing continuous and enormous damage to Jinhua.
Jinhua said that in the future, it will continue to pay attention to and collect any other infringing products that may be suspected of infringing on Jinhua's patent rights, including any memory chips and solid-state hard disks that are produced, processed, imported, used, sold, and promised to be sold using Micron's infringing chips. As a new entrant of the memory industry, only by attaching great importance to intellectual property protection can it be saved from the inability of those who are unable to do so. It will actively adopt various rights protection measures to defend its rights and interests, and will not tolerate any suspected infringement of Jinhua's patent rights.
It has been pointed out that This is the first time that China's development of semiconductors has been accused of 'stealing' and 'infringement', but this semiconductor's Boao war will continue for some time.
Affected by this news, Micron shares fell 3.0 US dollars today, a drop of 5.51%.
