In addition to Burley, Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo may sue Apple-Huawei, ZTE, Association-IT information

Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo and other smartphone makers are aggressively acquired through research and development, including access to patent, trying to challenge Apple and Samsung's position in the industry.

From Huawei, ZTE, and Lenovo, China Science and technology giant is through licensing deals, acquisitions and increase investment in research and development of franchise acquisitions--which could signal Apple and Samsung will not only face more legal challenges in China, overseas as well.

The importance of patent

Huawei has an ambitious goal, and hopes within five years to become the world's top smartphone maker. Last month, Huawei in the United States sued Samsung, said it violated the 11 cell phone patent. Samsung has said it will defend the interests in the proceedings. The lawsuit smartphone makers, China marked the first major legal challenge to market leader, Chinese manufacturers are always days when defendants in patent disputes are a thing of the past.

Huawei, the world's third largest smartphone maker, is also leader in the telecommunications equipment market. Last year, it is the Patent Cooperation Treaty (the Patent Cooperation Treaty to enable a company patents in multiple countries) international patent applications under the largest companies. Came in second to third companies is United States chip maker Qualcomm and ZTE of China.

In China, regulators are increasingly determined to require foreign companies to act in accordance with the rules of the game in Beijing, patent and also play a role. A little-known startups in China Shenzhen unexpectedly won a lawsuit against apples sold in Beijing market iPhone6 iPhone6 Plusbecause it claims to have related design patents in China.

Apple said it had filed the above. But at the same time, its main competitor in China, such as Huawei, are catching up on the franchise, two giants of the mobile phone industry challenge. According to Gartner, a research firm, judging from the sales in the first quarter, the world's top five intellectual expert manufacturers of three from China, including Huawei.

Huawei's progress

Just a smart phone may involve thousands of patents. This problem is so complex and difficult, and from 2011 onwards, Apple and Samsung as the battle for market dominance, in ongoing patent litigation around the world.

Huawei increased patent reserve way, mainly a large number of research and development investment. In the past five years, Huawei has spent nearly $ 30 billion in research and development. Last year, its spending on research and development rose 46%, amounted to $ 9.2 billion, but Apple's spending on research and development in the most recent financial year was $ 8.1 billion. Huawei currently has 16 research and development centers around the world, some of which are located in the United States and Europe.

Huawei's effort has made progress in intellectual property rights, in a sign, according to people familiar with the matter said, earlier this year, Apple had reached a licensing agreement with Huawei, the company started to pay the company royalties.

Huawei's head of consumer research and Development Center in Beijing in January this year to address 100 engineers, said the company will invest more money in research and development, of course, with the development of business, engineers ' bonus will grow further. "We can do it like Apple so much. "He said.

The practices of other companies

Other smartphone makers in China, such as millet, then purchase patents from Western rivals. Last month, about 1500 millet agrees to buy Microsoft patents. Millet one day not only in India and Brazil in the development of such a market.

"For defensive purposes, we must have a system for international patent licensing negotiation, building up strong reserves of intellectual property rights, including patents and acquisition of patents," Hugo Bala, millet, Vice President (Hugo Barra) said. Barak said millet look to the Western markets, such as the United States and Europe.

Analysts said millet are still not strong in intellectual property, cannot be expanded to United States in developed markets. Millet said last year its total of 3738 patent applications were submitted from China and abroad. In 2014 the number is 2045.

Analysts said success in the Smartphone market, requires more than just patent and spending more money on research and development.

In 2014, the Association spent $ 2.91 billion acquisition of Motorola cell phones, is one of the reasons for the latter's patent. But even with the Motorola patents, Lenovo's performance in the global smart phone market is not very good.

ZTE expanding reserves its patents, research and development and sales force. Data from the research firm Canalys, ZTE now has become the United States's fourth largest smartphone maker. But earlier this year in the United States Government met to trade, and now it is trying to solve the problem.

However, Huawei still hope to pass massive spending on research and development competition and competitors. Huawei Smartphone antenna design team in Beijing has been extended 10 times in recent five years, there are now about 50 engineers. Huawei has several mobile phone antenna design team, Beijing team four or five new patent applications every year.

Apple last year iPhone6s and iPhone6s Plus when the team remove the Apple phone, antenna in an insulated room test, compare and relate it to its own antenna.

"We are still lags behind Apple, but we feel that the gap is narrowing. "A member of the team said.

除了佰利，华为、中兴、联想也有可能起诉苹果 - 华为,中兴,联想 - IT资讯

华为、中兴和联想等智能手机制造商正在通过研发收购等方式大举获取专利权，试图挑战苹果和三星的业界地位。

从华为到中兴，再到联想，中国科技巨头正在通过授权交易、收购和加大研发投入的方式获取专利权——这可能预示着苹果和三星不仅将在中国面临更多的法律挑战，在境外也是如此。

对专利的重视

华为有一个雄心勃勃的目标，希望能在五年内成为全球顶级智能手机制造商。上个月，华为在美国起诉三星，称其侵犯了它的11项手机专利权。三星已经表示将在诉讼中捍卫的利益。这起诉讼标志着中国智能手机制造商第一次对市场领导者发起重大法律挑战，中国厂商总是在专利纠纷中当被告的日子已经成为过去。

华为是全球第三大智能手机制造商，也是电信设备市场的领导者。去年，它还是专利合作条约（Patent Cooperation Treaty，方便公司在多个国家申请专利）下国际专利申请量最大的公司。排在第二、三位的公司是美国芯片制造商高通和中国的中兴。

在中国，监管机构越来越坚定地要求外国公司按照北京的游戏规则行事，专利也在其中扮演了一个角色。深圳市一家名不见经传的中国初创公司出人意料赢得一个官司，禁止苹果在北京市场销售iPhone6和iPhone6 Plus，因为它声称在中国拥有相关的外观设计专利。

苹果表示已经提起了上述。但与此同时，它在中国的主要竞争对手，比如华为，正在专利权上奋起直追，对手机行业的两大巨头发起挑战。研究公司Gartner的数据显示，从第一季度销量来看，全球前五大智能手机厂商有三家来自中国，其中就包括华为。

华为的进展

仅仅一款智能手机就可能涉及数千项专利。这个问题如此复杂而棘手，从2011年起，苹果和三星在争夺市场主导地位之际，就在世界各地不断进行专利诉讼。

华为增加专利储备的方式，主要是进行了大量的研发投资。在过去的五年中，华为已经在研发上花费了近300亿美元。去年，其研发支出增长46%，达92亿美元，而苹果公司在最近一个财会年度的研发支出是81亿美元。华为目前在世界各地拥有16个研发中心，其中一些位于美国和欧洲。

华为在知识产权上的努力已经取得进展，一个迹象是，据知情人士说，今年早些时候，苹果与华为达成了一个授权协议，苹果开始向华为支付专利使用费。

华为消费业务负责人今年1月在北京研发中心对100名工程师发表讲话，称该公司将在研发上投入更多资金，当然随着业务的发展，工程师的奖金也会水涨船高。“我们可以做得像苹果那么大。”他说。

其他公司的做法

其他中国智能手机厂商，比如小米，则在从西方竞争对手那里购买专利。上个月，小米同意购买微软约1500项专利。小米希望有一天可以不仅仅在印度和巴西这样的发展中市场销售产品。

“出于防御目的，我们必须有系统地进行国际专利授权谈判，建立强大的知识产权储备，方式包括申请专利和收购专利，”小米副总裁雨果·巴拉（Hugo Barra）说。巴拉说小米把眼光投向了西方市场，比如美国和欧洲。

分析师称，小米在知识产权方面还不够强，无法扩张到美国这样的发达市场。小米说，它去年在中国和海外总共提交了3738项专利申请。2014年这个数字是2045项。

分析师说，要在智能手机市场取得成功，需要的不仅仅是在专利和研发上投入更多资金。

2014年，联想斥资29.1亿美元收购摩托罗拉手机，原因之一就是为了后者的专利。但即使拥有了摩托罗拉的专利，联想在全球智能手机市场上的表现也不如人意。

中兴通讯扩大其专利储备、研发和销售队伍。从研究公司Canalys的数据来看，目前中兴已成为美国第四大智能手机制造商。但是今年早些它在美国政府那里遇到了贸易问题，现在它正在试图解决这个问题。

尽管如此，华为还是希望可以通过巨额的研发支出来和对手开展竞争。华为在北京的智能手机天线的设计团队近五年已扩大了10倍，现在有大约50个工程师。华为有好几个手机天线设计团队，北京的这个团队每年会申请四、五项新专利。

苹果去年发布iPhone6s和iPhone6s Plus的时候，这个团队拆卸了苹果手机，在一个绝缘的房间里面测试天线，并将其与华为自己的天线进行比较。

“我们仍然比不上苹果，但我们觉得差距正在缩小。”这个团队的一名成员说。