A few days ago, according to the “Announcement on the Acceptance of Administrative Judgments on Major Patent Infringement Disputes” published by the National Intellectual Property News, the 02nd edition, Huawei sued Xiaomi for four patent infringements.
According to Yinshi Finance, Xiaomi responded to this by saying: The two parties are actively negotiating on patent licensing; my country’s intellectual property protection system provides a variety of resolution mechanisms, including administrative and judicial mediation. It is an industry practice to resolve licensing issues through a third-party mediation mechanism. Both Huawei and Xiaomi believe that intellectual property licensing and cooperation are conducive to promoting innovation and public interest and that mediation is an effective channel to help reach licensing. While continuing to actively negotiate, the two parties sought to use a variety of mediation mechanisms to assist the parties in reaching an agreement.
According to the “Announcement on the Acceptance of Administrative Judgments on Major Patent Infringement Disputes”, on January 17, 2023, the State Intellectual Property Office accepted the case filed by the petitioner Huawei that the respondent Xiaomi infringed four of its Chinese patents. Judging from the content disclosed in the case, Look, the four patents involved in this dispute are “method and device for sending control signaling”, “method for feeding back ACK/NACK information during carrier aggregation, base station and user equipment” and “a method for obtaining panoramic images and terminal”, “a screen locking method and a mobile terminal”. From the perspective of patent content, cases No. 1 and No. 2 involve 4G/LTE technology, which are standard essential patents (SEPs). Cases No. 3 and No. 4 involve mobile phone camera and unlocking technology, which are non-SEP patents.
At the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Design Capital Conference last year, Yu Chengdong, Huawei’s executive director and CEO of Terminal BG, made complaints about patent infringement. He said, “In many industries, especially some companies in China, they are copying our designs. Including some of our patents, people don’t pay us patent fees when they use them, they use them directly, and then claim that they are their own patents.”, and even some things were directly copied.”
