Roy Chiu's road to patent rights protection

Qiu Zeyou seems to have foreseen the huge market space of this technology when conducting research. 1996, he and his wife, who are already the heads of state-owned enterprises, both went to sea and founded Changsha Giant Star Lightweight Building Materials Co., Ltd. (the predecessor of Changsha Lightweight Building Materials Co., Ltd.), the first high-tech enterprise supported by beamless floor technology in Changsha. However, at the same time, many people have fixed their eyes on this big fat meat in his hand. At that time, Roy Chiu's consciousness of patent protection was not very strong. In order not to steal his technical achievements, he put all the building materials related to the hollow floor in prison for production. "At that time, I only knew how to protect my scientific research results in the form of trade secrets, and the result was still a hundred secrets." However, Qiu lamented that someone stole the production technology of its high-strength thin-walled pipe through an employee of his company and immediately applied for a patent.

I am also a learned man. Qiu Zeyou said that he immediately consulted a lot of information about patent protection and patent application and asked relevant experts. 1in 1999, 2 1 independent invention patents were applied in three scientific fields: new material manufacturing technology, new structural system technology and building technology. At that time, nine items were approved by the State Patent Office, forming a patent system.

While carrying out patent protection, Qiu Zeyou also vigorously promoted his new technological achievements. He first cooperated with others in the form of technology shares, giving technical guidance from building materials production to construction. In June 2000, the company acquired tens of millions of shares. At the same time, however, infringement incidents also occur constantly.

First of all, a large number of manufacturers copied Qiu's hollow floor series building materials, and in order to compete with Qiu Zeyou and his partners and seize the market, they cut prices one after another. While lowering the price, those unscrupulous manufacturers naturally reduced the quality of their products and shoddy them, so that several buildings that used these unscrupulous manufacturers' hollow building materials collapsed. At that time, the whole building materials market was in an uproar, and people began to question the reliability of this hollow floor technology. Qiu Zeyou and his partners are naturally involved, and the whole hollow floor market is in danger of collapse.

Qiu and his partners not only ensured the quality and supply of the building materials they produced, but also launched a series of patent lawsuits all over the country and started the "clearing the field" action.

Since August 2003, Qiu Zeyou has filed 38 patent infringement lawsuits and 6 pre-litigation injunctions against more than 30 infringers in 9 provinces and cities, including Hunan, Chongqing, Guangxi, Xiamen and Anhui, and all cases have been won or compensated or settled.

The technical characteristics of a building material product produced by an enterprise in Xiangtan belong to the protection category of Qiu Zeyou's patent. Qiu Zeyou adopted "encirclement and suppression tactics" and initiated five patent lawsuits against the enterprise. When the other party came to Changsha to ask whether it was true or not, Qiu Zeyou took out a patent certificate and then picked out the infringement facts for them. There are 1 1 in total. In other words, you can always fight 1 1 lawsuit. After two court sessions, the company demanded reconciliation and was willing to give up its absolute controlling stake.

In 2004 alone, Roy Chiu won a patent lawsuit of1100,000 yuan. Now there are no infringing manufacturers in Hunan market, and the market situation has also improved. Some large construction companies said that if the cast-in-place concrete hollow floor technology is needed in the future construction process, they will use the products of superstar company, which will not infringe the patents of superstar company and Roy Chiu company.