On February 6th, Huawei announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Verizon, an American operator, in the U.S. courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, requesting the court to find that Verizon infringed 12 patents authorized by Huawei in the United States, and at the same time demanding Verizon to compensate Huawei for its patent infringement.
Song Liuping, a chief law officer of Huawei, claimed that Verizon benefited from infringing products and damaged Huawei's research and development achievements for many years. It is reported that Huawei invests 1-15% of its revenue in R&D every year. In the past ten years, the accumulated R&D expenses have exceeded 7 billion US dollars, and the global patents have exceeded 8,, including more than 1, in the United States alone.
when it comes to Huawei, everyone knows it in China. It can be said that Huawei has always been the pride of Chinese people. It insists on giving back to consumers with technology and products, and it represents China Zhizao to the world. This time, Huawei sued Verizon, which was regarded as a "bright sword" for domestic technology companies to the world's powerful countries, and quickly boarded the hot search. In fact, when it comes to lawsuits, not only disputes between technology companies continue, but also car companies often go to court. Today, we will continue with Huawei's lawsuit against Verizon and look at those lawsuits between car companies!
Geely sued Weimar
When it comes to Geely suing Weimar, everyone will be familiar with it. After all, this is a dispute between a traditional OEM and a new car company. For these two big car-making forces, people have been talking for a long time about whether * * * can coexist? With the decline of the market, it's finally here, but Geely fired the first shot.
As early as last September, according to the information on the website of Shanghai Higher People's Court, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Geely Automobile Research Institute sued Weimar Automobile Technology Group, Weimar Smart Travel Technology, Weimar Automobile Manufacturing Wenzhou Company and Weimar New Energy Automobile Sales Company on the grounds of infringement of trade secrets. This is not only the first case of intellectual property infringement initiated by an independent car company in China, but also the claim amount is as high as 2.1 billion yuan. Judging from the amount of claims for intellectual product disputes in China's automobile industry, this amount is the highest so far.
On September 17th, the case was formally heard in Shanghai Higher People's Court. Because the case was heard in private and a confidentiality agreement was signed, too much information was not released in the end, and the result was unknown. However, judging from the reply of Weimar President Freeman Shen that "there is no infringement, we are very confident in winning this lawsuit", Weimar is confident in winning this lawsuit. As for the final result, both car companies remain silent, and the outside world is waiting for the day when the truth comes out.
Land Rover v. Lu Feng
This patent dispute case between Jaguar Land Rover and Jiangling Land Wind is almost the first case that won the patent protection for automobile design in China. Speaking of landwind, you may not be familiar with it, but you are absolutely familiar with its landwind X7. After all, it was a hot time in those days, with sales exceeding 1, in two weeks after listing. Many car owners ridiculed that "Land Rover can't be bought, so let's see if Landwind is too enjoyable". We can see the similarities between Landwind X7 and Land Rover by teasing the owner.
Faced with this situation, Land Rover took Lu Feng's plagiarism to court in a rage, but unfortunately it didn't win that year. However, Land Rover did not give up, and persistently collected evidence and data. Finally, in early March last year, Land Rover finally won the battle against Landwind. According to the ruling of Beijing Chaoyang District Court, Landwind X7 produced in jiangling motors, China, was sentenced to stop production immediately because five vehicle designs were copied from Land Rover evoque. The production, sales and marketing promotion of Landwind X7 were ordered to stop immediately, and jiangling motors will also pay compensation to Jaguar Land Rover.
Land Rover sued Landwind for success, which is regarded as a major classic case in the "cottage history" of China's independent automobile brand, which also warns independent brands not to repeat the same mistakes, and all imitations and cottage designs are likely to be sued, so it is necessary to improve the originality of vehicles and upgrade their own technology.
Sichuan Wild Horse sued Ford
All along, we only looked at the cases in which joint-venture brands sued their own brands, but it was rare for independent brands to sue joint-venture brands. After all, our own brand started late in the automobile industry and lacked the right to speak in this industry. Of course, everything has an example, such as the Sichuan Mustang suing Ford Motor Company.
As early as 216, Sichuan MUSTANG Automobile Co., Ltd. sued Ford Mustang, the Chinese name of Mustang model of Ford Motor (China) Co., Ltd., for trademark infringement and demanded compensation of RMB 1 million. After two years of litigation, the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court finally made a first-instance judgment, and Sichuan Mustang Automobile Co., Ltd. won the case and won 1 million yuan.
when we look at this lawsuit now, the outcome remains to be discussed, but it is definitely a win-win situation. First of all, although the two have gone to court, they have different positioning and there is no direct competition. No matter who wins or loses, it will not affect sales. In addition, both of them have gained some public attention, and the last headline was as simple as that, winning their own exposure.
Why do car companies' lawsuits frequently appear
In fact, there are countless cases of car manufacturers' disputes, so we won't cite them one by one. Let's discuss them, for the sake of frequent lawsuits between car companies. In my opinion, all this stems from the intensification of market competition. If there are only a few car companies in the world, they will live in peace with each other and there will not be too many disputes. After all, they can make money while lying down. Who has the heart to go to court?
nowadays, with the intensification of market competition, whoever has the core technology has the right to speak, so that he can be in an invincible position. It can be said that protecting the core technology is to protect your lifeline. Therefore, for plagiarism or borrowing from their own products, major car companies will inevitably seek justice for themselves, even at the expense of going to court. This is not only a way for car companies to protect their rights and interests, but also makes those lucky models have nowhere to escape.
generally speaking, both Huawei and car companies have protected their rights and interests to varying degrees with the intensification of market competition, and even went to court. In the future, we believe that there will be more and more lawsuits, so that more car companies will take up legal weapons to protect themselves.
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