Shared bicycle patent which strong?

Since last year, a wind of sharing bicycles has rapidly blown in major cities across the country. Shared bicycles are produced in response to the development of mobile Internet and two-dimensional codes. They are the product of science and technology in the new era. Parking without piles and scanning codes can overcome many disadvantages of public bicycles and solve the problem of people's last kilometer of travel. In the shared bicycle market, ofo and mobike have obvious advantages. Among them, ofo has the largest number of bicycles, reaching 800000, with a market share of 51.2. Mobike has 600000 sets, with a market share of 40.1. With the successive launch of various brands on the market, the shared bicycle market will show explosive growth. So as the current industry leader of the above two companies, respectively, applied for which patents?

Taking "Beijing mobike Technology Co., Ltd." to which mobike belongs as the applicant's search term (the search date is March 23, 2017, the same below), the following patents were retrieved:

According to the disclosure of patents, it can be seen that the relevant patent applications of mobike are mainly concentrated in the second half of 2015, and there will be a small number of patent applications in 2016 (some patents may not have been disclosed until 18 months after the patent application is not required to be disclosed in advance).

Among the 35 patents applied for, the types are mainly inventions and utility models, supplemented by designs. Among them, 32 patent applications are Chinese patent applications, including 15 inventions, 12 utility models and 5 designs. Two are Taiwan applications and only one is WO International Patent Application (WO2016197943A1). The family application of this application is CNCN105046827A. This patent involves bicycle management system and its control method and device. It can be seen that this technology is undoubtedly the core technology of mobike. The following are the designated countries:

It is reported that Mobike plans to open up the US market and carry out effective overseas patent layout is an important guarantee for going abroad and going to the world.

However, taking ofo's "Beijing Baikelok Technology Co., Ltd." as the applicant's search term, the following patents were retrieved:

It can be seen that compared with mobike, the number of patent applications for our "little yellow car" seems to be a little less, and the application time is concentrated in 2016, which is later than that of mobike. The scope of application mainly involves car locks, which shows the important strategic position of smart locks in the field of shared bicycles.

However, it is worth mentioning that on the 7th of this month, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court accepted the intellectual property infringement case of the domestic mobile phone access control brand "Linglingmen" suing Beijing Mobike Technology.

Plaintiff: Domestic mobile phone access control brand "order to open the door"

Defendant: Beijing Mobike Technology Co., Ltd.

The plaintiff's claim: one is to ask mobike to stop the infringement, and the other is to compensate for its infringement.

Ling Lingkai demanded in the lawsuit that mobike stop the infringement and compensate Ling Lingkai for its infringement of intellectual property rights, including high-value patented technologies involved in mobile phone unlocking, but did not disclose the specific amount of compensation required. At a time when all the firepower is in full swing to "burn money" to grab market share, will the patent rights protection of "order to open the door" become a basin of cold water pouring on the shared bicycle market? We don't know.