Claim 50 million yuan! MediaTek sued for Broadcom infringement in Beijing

Although MediaTek's share or usage rate in domestic smartphones has been declining in recent years, he did not "sit still", but actively sought other ways, such as exchanging technology for commercial returns.

A few days ago, MediaTek Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as MediaTek) sued Broadcom Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Broadcom) and Beijing Jinhua Sunshine Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Jinhua Sunshine) to Beijing Intellectual Property Court, requesting the court to order the two defendants to stop the infringement, and Broadcom will follow the standard of 10 million yuan per patent, compensation for economic losses and reasonable litigation expenses of Lianfa Branch Company totaled 50 million yuan.

Fen and sue: Broadcom's three chip series are alleged infringement.

MediaTek claimed that the alleged infringing products manufactured by Broadcom and sold and promised to be sold by Jinhua Sunshine, namely "BCM4774", "BCM4366" and "BCM57785" chips, fell into the name owned by MediaTek. The scope of protection of five invention patents, including "integrated circuit transformer.

Among the infringing products involved, "BCM4774" is a positioning hub chip released by Broadcom in 2014, which can support Galileo, GPS, GLONASS, SBAS, QZSS and China Beidou Satellite (BeiDou) positioning systems at the same time, and is usually used on smart phones. "BCM4366" is a chip for routers, wireless cable/DSL/PON gateways and set-top boxes (STB) products introduced by Broadcom in 2015, while "BCM57785" is also a network card chip introduced by Broadcom.

Simply put, from smartphones to set-top boxes, from routers to network cards, Broadcom's chips for the aforementioned products have been sued by MediaTek for alleged patent infringement.

Patent involved: technology related to chip structure and performance control

This time, Lianfa Branch initiated a total of five disputes over infringement of invention patent rights, involving five invention patents, and the claim amount for each patent was 10 million yuan.

Among them, one of the invention patents involved in the case, "integrated circuit transformer", was applied by MediaTek on July 2, 2012, and was approved and authorized on March 25, 2015. The patent mainly provides an integrated circuit transformer. The integrated circuit transformer is Set on the substrate.

Under the premise of the continuous improvement of the current chip integration technology, the integrated transformer on the chip is the consensus of the industry. Therefore, if MediaTek can defeat Broadcom in the lawsuit this time, it will broaden the revenue source of the company and improve itself. The right to speak in the field of chip manufacturing technology is of great significance.

Sieve Wei and save Zhao: MediaTek tests the judicial protection of domestic intellectual property rights.

On June 30, 2016, Qualcomm sued Meizu to Beijing Intellectual Property Court and Shanghai Intellectual Property Court respectively, claiming that Meizu infringed a number of patents covering multiple functions and technologies of smart phones by Qualcomm (Qualcomm), including patents related to 3G(WCDMA and CDMA2000) and 4G(LTE) wireless communication standards. The two places filed 9 and 8 patent infringement lawsuits respectively, claiming a total of 17 million yuan. At that time, the claim standard for each patent was 1 million yuan, and now, the claim standard for MediaTek to sue Broadcom is 10 million yuan.

Due to the settlement between Qualcomm and Meizu, the previous litigation between the two parties has temporarily come to an end without a final judgment. This makes it uncertain how high the standard of patent compensation related to mobile phones and chips is.

However, it is worth noting that the Beijing Intellectual Property Court has already made the highest compensation record since the establishment of the court in the first instance judgment, which is as high as 50 million yuan. Therefore, the claim of MediaTek is not too high.

It is worth mentioning that, affected by the market competition of Qualcomm and other chip manufacturers, MediaTek's share of use in domestic mobile phone manufacturers is being continuously "eroded". This time MediaTek took the lead in taking Botong's "operation" to test the water, which does not rule out the possibility of patent litigation friction with other chip manufacturers in the future.

News source:http://news.bioon.com/article/6707855.html

This news was re-edited and reorganized by the Huaxun team and added analytical comments.