As market competition intensifies, the patent dispute has become a normal market behavior, a variety of events are on the patent dispute booming high-tech enterprises in China have a heavy blow. Late start of LED technology in recent years developed very rapidly in China, they face an increasing number of patent disputes, and domestic enterprises are often in a more passive situation. In fact, faced with a patent dispute is not terrible, terrible thing is in patent disputes in a passive position of being beaten and helpless. The industry believes that to understand the nature of patent disputes, and actively respond to is the way out.
Upstream patent monopoly still foreign
The last two years, China's patent litigation experience LED companies increased significantly. Earlier this year, the two companies in the overseas experience of Shenzhen LED patent litigation, the final settlement of compensation are ended. This almost represents the majority of domestic LED business experience.
Intellectual Property Agency Co., Ltd. Beijing set good head Zhang Haiding Southern Region, said publicly in recent years, the 1977 and the LED technology-related patents, our business applications for the 967, the proportion was 48.9%, the inventor of Statistics in the top five ranking of the invention that has three domestic inventors. Can be seen that China's enterprises in the LED package, the application of downstream industrial chain has formed a certain degree of technical capabilities and advantages. However, and this corresponds to that, LED lighting industry chain, the upstream region of about 80% to 90% of the original invention patents Que from the United States, Japan and European companies, mainly in Japan, Germany, the United States and South Korea, the hands of large companies .
At present, the foreign advanced level of technology enterprises in the face of a substantial increase in domestic circumstances, both of China's enterprises to take the fight and pull strategy, mostly suppressed for some SMEs, but for some powerful companies more inclined to conditional authorization, but the chips will be tight upstream patent blockade. In general, LED technology, patent disputes downstream industries concentrated in the domestic manufacturing enterprises to establish the competitive landscape among the upper reaches of technical disputes occurred in the domestic enterprise to break the process of containment of foreign patents. For some time, patent disputes have occurred regularly, and the emerging power of China's development will always be under threat.
Companies need to seize the opportunity to actively respond to
Despite foreign companies to patent the "besieged", but on the domestic LED enterprises, is not without opportunities. Beginning this year, will come a number of LED patents on more than 20 years of patent protection, and a considerable portion of which is involved in white LED, LED patent pattern of this will have some impact, but also to China's lack of core patented technology LED enterprises must bring some development opportunities.
Zhang Haiding said on LED enterprises, often considered early warning analysis, patent portfolio, patent is invalid, the weak coalition deal with patent disputes, etc., companies can take advantage of combining these models to their own circumstances. He believes that foreign enterprises have been established in the patent field advantage, the rapid development of domestic enterprises in the process is bound to encounter a growing number of patent disputes, which can not be avoided. However, the continuous upgrading of domestic technological level and patent applications and analytical skills to complete the accumulation of intellectual property rights, domestic enterprises can be controlled by others because the patent status of a certain improvement.
This year, Shenzhen set up a LED patent pool, to build the first domestic LED patent database. The industry believes that, LED patent alliance members to build a unified enterprise intellectual property management system, enterprises can avoid a separate development, redundant construction. Between enterprises within the members can be cross-licensing patents to form a patent pool, firms with foreign LED patent battle, a "patent pool" in the form will have more bargaining power.
In addition, the industry suggested that the state should pay more attention to the relevant departments of foreign companies tend to patent portfolio, and enhance the field of Chinese LED patent portfolio efforts to break the current "mess and fragmented" situation, focus on investment, focusing on the development, LED industry chain in solution key technology, master with independent property rights of core technologies and patents; further accelerate the formulation of LED lighting product performance, testing, energy efficiency standards and related specifications, establish and improve product testing platform; carry LED lighting products, energy-saving certification, an appropriate increase in foreign the threshold into the domestic market. In addition, enterprises and research institutions should strengthen research cooperation, technology and capital, R & D capabilities and production capacity combined, will develop more core technology and patents, and scientific research institutions to promote innovation to the business transfer knowledge effectively prevent property risks, promoting China's LED industry upgrade.
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