Fierce fighting for IDCC between Samsung, Google & Apple?
(Partial Microsoft automatic translation of a site where concerns about the Chinese lack of patents portfolio are expressed)
It is clear that patent warfare goes beyond individual enterprises, upgraded to a battle between camp, competition from the patent can be seen. In July 2011, the consortium of companies including Apple, Microsoft, and RIM to pay $ 4.5 billion to acquire Canada telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks about 6,000 patents. Subsequently, Google spent $ 12.5 billion in mid-August to acquire Motorola's move, access to which more than 1.70,000 patents, the aim is to strengthen the patent portfolio against Microsoft, Apple a threat to Android.
But in recent days, several manufacturers such as Samsung, Google, Apple in order to obtain United States wireless technology development and licensing company InterDigital 8,800 patents in the hands of fierce fighting.
For domestic companies, on one hand, due to the lack of core technologies, only long-term survival at the lower end of the industry value chain links; on the other hand, lack of patent and could make in international patent disputes are often in a passive, weak position. In addition, a certain extent, lack of patent technology has also become constraints kept the domestic enterprises into the international market.
According to the Ministry after the publication of the patent landscapes 2010 information technology report shows that patent was divided into the invention, utility model and design of three. Utility model patents are often lower-value, only the patent truly technical gold content. The last four years of electronic information industry although described as a "patent outbreak", but the patent structure is still unsatisfactory. Applications from abroad, almost 99% are invention patent; but the domestic patent applications, about half of it is utility. The report also points out, in major companies and multinationals in China a big gap between the amount of patent applications. Apart from Huawei and ZTE, did not apply for more than 5,000 pieces of a business in the Mainland, and multinational corporations in China top 10 patent applications have over 10,000 items.
Must actively develop in its development of Chinese enterprises patent strategy, flexibility, enhance their awareness of patents, actively patented, core technology and its research and development results from a legal sense, protect it becomes part of the company's core assets. At the same time, in terms of developing patent, domestic enterprises should strive to achieve connotation transformation from quantity to quality of patents.
Source: http://www.d1com.com/terminal/market/466...
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