In the evening of September 4, China's Ministry of Commerce issued a message that August 30, 2018, the United States Autel Robotics Company in accordance with the U.S. 1930 Tariff Act No. 337, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) filed an application, accusing Shenzhen DJI Technology Co., Ltd. and its affiliated companies (
Hereinafter referred to as "DJI") exports to the United States, the United States imports or sales of unmanned aerial vehicles and its components infringe its patent rights, request the ITC to initiate ' 337 investigation ' and issued a limited exclusion order and a restraining order. It is noteworthy that this request from ITC to DJI launched a survey of Autel Robotics is Shenzhen Intelligent Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dao Tong Intelligent") in the United States set up subsidiaries.
Ultimately, the event is a patent war for two Chinese companies.
In response to the incident, the Beijing Business newspaper reporters contacted the DJI officials, but the current DJI has not yet responded. The ' 337 survey ' here refers to a patent-specific regulation, which is a survey conducted by the United States International Trade Commission pursuant to section No. 337 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 (Tariff Act of 1930) and related amendments,
All unfair acts of competition or any unfair trade in products exported to the United States are prohibited. According to the investigation procedure, the U.S. side once ruled that the target enterprise has the violation behavior, the target enterprise produces the related product or will be permanently forbidden to enter the American market.
This means that once the DJI loses, it will exit the US market and even the global market will be blocked and banned. It is reported that the Autel robotics request ITC to launch a survey of DJI is only a follow-up of the pre-order patent war. April 25, 2018, Passepartout Intelligence's US subsidiary (Autel Robotics USA LLC) is in the U.S. District Court of Southern New York for the three companies (DJI Technology Inc., SZ DJI Technology Co.Ltd. and DJI Rope B.V.)
Filed a lawsuit, weigh violated two of its U.S. invention patents. These two invention patents are 174th and 184th, respectively, the 174 patent named ' Automatic speed of automatic planning and regulation ', 184th is called ' Compact unmanned rotary aircraft ', respectively, from Honeywell (Honeywell International Inc.) by Wuhua.
and was purchased by a company named ' Draganfly Innovations Inc. ' in Ottawa, Canada. Passepartout intelligence believes that DJI is currently on sale of the main products, including the ' Imperial Mavic ' series, ' Xiao Spark ' series, ' Elf Phantom ' series, ' Wu Inspire ' series and other UAV products are involved in the infringement of the above two patents, so will DJI to court.