The 24-month patent war between Minxin and Goer has made new progress.

Minxin and Goer Dachronic24The Patent War of the MonthAgainhave new progress

6Month7day,Qingdao Intermediate People's Court of Shandong ProvinceMake(2020)Lu02Knowing the Beginning of the People65Judgement No. The court ruled that Suzhou Minxin Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. stopped producing and selling patents that infringed Goer Co., Ltd.ZL201220626527.1(hereinafter referred to"Involved Patent")The name is“MEMSMicrophone”Utility model patent products,Sentenced Minxin to compensate for Goliath400Ten thousand yuan.So far, the duration24Months later, Minxin and GoerBetweenThere have been important new developments in patent disputes that have attracted much attention.

Gore shares is the domestic acoustic precision device manufacturing leader, the company was established in.2001year, in2004Annual layoutMEMS(MEMS) field,2008Listed in, the current market value exceeds.1300Billions of dollars. Minxin was established in2007year, in2020Landing on the CRE Board in, current market capitalization60Billions of dollars;The company's mainMEMSSensor chip design, production process development, product sales and production of part of the test link.

2019Year7In the month, Gore shares are.3A utility model patent willSuzhou Minxin Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.(hereinafter referred to“sensitive core microelectronics", that is, the current Minxin shares)to the Beijing Intellectual Property Court,to file a patent infringement suit,set off between the two“patent war”.

2019Year11In January, Beijing Goltek Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Goertek Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to“Goltek”) filed a lawsuit with the Suzhou Intermediate People's Court, claimingsensitive core microelectronicsHeld No.ZL200710038554.0The invention patent is Mei Jiaxin's service invention, and its patent right shall belong to Goltek.TheThe patent application date is2007Year3Month, the inventor is Minxin Micro.ElectronicOne of the founders,Deputy General Manager From Jiaxin. And Mi Jiaxin was2004Year7Month2006Year12The patent was filed only after he left Goltek.3Months. After more than a year of patent wars,2021Year3month,TheThe patentee of the invention patent was changed from Minxin to Goltek.

From2019Year7Since the beginning of the month, the series of patent lawsuits by Gore shares against Minxin shares have continued.24months, the case reached nearly20It mainly involves cases of service inventions.(Patent OwnershipQuestion)and product patent infringement cases.

As a counterattack,In2020Year4MonthDue to the patent dispute with Goer shares.And after the unsuccessful listing,sensitive coreSharesThree times already.InvolvedThe patent made an invalidation request.State Intellectual Property Office in2020Year12Month to MonthOne of the timesInvalid RequestMakeAward,DeclarationInvolvedPatentPartially invalid;At present, the latter two invalidation items are still in progress, and presumably Minxin will continue to target them.InvolvedThe remaining claims of the patent launch the attack.in addition,Minxin sharesAlsorespectively on the Gore shares“malicious litigation”,“unfair competition”WaitThe matter was countersued in Beijing and Suzhou.

The result of the first instance judgment of Qingdao Intermediate People's Court is the first judgment in the patent infringement case of Minxin's products.Minxin shares stated in the announcement: This judgment is the result of the first-instance judgment. The judgment has not yet taken effect. The company will appeal to the Supreme People's Court as soon as possible in accordance with the law. There is still uncertainty about the final result of this patent litigation.. Anyway, this timeThe verdict was for this long.24Months, both sides hold their own words“Patent dispute”A result that can be used as a reference and can be used as a basis for periodic determination is presented.

Regardless of the final result, in this patent tug-of-war, the two companies may not be called winners in the end, but they can reflect the many problems that Chinese companies are facing in the intellectual property protection environment.In the field of science and technology, the patent behind the condensation of a large number of financial, material and human resources, is the enterprise with a huge amount“Assets”Piled up“thought crystallization”. In this case, the establishment of the enterprise's own patent moat, the improvement of the intellectual property protection system and the experience of domestic and foreign patent litigation response will undoubtedly become another dimension of the enterprise's competitiveness.