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Products made by the mobile phone companies like to get together, but now even the lawsuit conspired together. Nearly one month, the mobile phone industry continue a lawsuit caused a sensation. Huawei Sue Bai Lee sued Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm sued Meizu, pieces are eye-catching. These lawsuits have a lot in common: all about intellectual property rights, all phones, all of which occurred between the Chinese companies and multinational giants. After frequent patent litigation, patent litigation is likely to be competition in the mobile phone industry's conventional weapons.

Huawei vs Samsung

Might just be a prelude

Today, the top three global mobile phone has been relatively stable, Huawei and Samsung, Apple, respectively. In order to occupy the market, it's hard to live together in peace for a long time between these three. First years-long patent battle between Apple and Samsung, the amount of compensation were revised again, involving products continues to increase, also known as "patent war of the century". At the time of the two enterprises have gradually reached a settlement, new war started, this time fighting both Huawei and Samsung.

On May 25 this year, the company announced, in the United States and China against Korea Samsung company intellectual property litigation, the Court includes and Shenzhen intermediate people's Court of the Northern District of California Court. Huawei asked Samsung in the proceedings on the infringement of intellectual property rights for compensation to the company, the lawsuit involves the 4G standard patent and patent related to Smartphone features. Just a few days ago, Huawei has a case against Samsung was disclosed, the company filed a lawsuit against Samsung in Quanzhou in the Yuan, and claims 80 million Yuan. Huawei believes that Samsung infringed its "which can be applied to the Terminal component of the processing methods and user equipment" invention patents.

In the mobile phone market, Huawei will star as a major opponent was an open fact, Huawei's consumer business CEO Yu is repeatedly put words to more than Samsung in a few years, so this time its active patent litigation does not come as a surprise to the Samsung.

The prospects for the lawsuit, industry opinions about the differences, some view that Huawei has been a long time, initiate patent lawsuit is obviously have confidence in yourself; but there are people in the industry believe that Samsung in the global patent strategy has considerable thickness, Huawei's main intention is to pass the case to expand their brand on a global scale. And most people would agree is that consumption of such lawsuits are often long, is likely to be ended with a conditional reconciliation between the parties.

Union Secretary General Wang yanhui said, China Mobile, Huawei has sued Samsung, just groundwork to mount an all-out war activist, Huawei's real aim for other mobile phone brand in China, hoping to like Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia and other foreign giants, charging patent licensing fees . "Huawei's prosecution of tort is a matter of local competitors, but Huawei has chosen a more conservative strategy, starting with the first pay more attention to intellectual property protection in Europe and America, giving priority to prosecution of international companies have been used to pay royalties. "He said.

Burley vs Apple

No money, no potential against giants

In a recent patent lawsuits, Burley will win Apple. A not many people have heard of enterprise, take Apple won in the patent.

Also in May, a patent infringement case to the Beijing intellectual property right Bureau processing results, judging the iPhone6 and iPhone6Plus phones violated Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Burley design patents and ordered Apple sale.

IPhone6, iPhone6plus phones. Bai Lee aspects provides of evidence displayed, its products appearance patent of application time early Yu Apple iPhone6 released 9 months, and Beijing intellectual property Council also finds "after than on, was control infringement products and involved patent is exists series of difference, but are belongs to general consumers to note to of tiny differences, so should finds was control infringement products and involved patent no significantly difference, fall into involved patent of protection range".

Beijing intellectual property Office now has the decision of administrative proceedings, leading to the Beijing intellectual property Court, iPhone iPhone 6Plus and 6 are still sold in China.

Apple is copying each other, it is difficult to conclusion, but from a legal perspective, Burley ahead of the party in a patent lawsuit, Apple eventually loses nor less likely. However, in a statement, Cadbury said "just wanted clarification of the facts, to protect their creative design and intellectual property. Cadbury is not intended to affect the sales of Apple products from start to finish. "Burley's lawyer even revealed that Burley does not present a claim to the Apple.

Wang yanhui believes that Burley was a small company had no money and no power, this may also affect this case to end. Burley had done the phone, but withdrawn from the market for some time. "Launch patent lawsuits also depends on the financial, the Court needs to deposit, to hire professional lawyers are expensive. "Wang yanhui said Burley had money, finally winning the case is also possible, but not because of the money, and now even the compensation requirement is not.

Qualcomm sued Meizu

A stone carved

Has been to charge the mobile phone manufacturers are called "high taxes" Qualcomm of licensing costs, finally put the mobile phone manufacturers in China to small claims court, the first Chinese brand of their choice, that is, the Meizu. Last month, Qualcomm's intellectual property Court on Meizu to Beijing's complaint. In the lawsuit, high to the Meizu claims up to 520 million Yuan.

In all of China's leading mobile phone manufacturer, Meizu is the intersection with high throughput of at least, their phones use chips or Samsung chip, only a lower-end mobile phones use Qualcomm's scheme. However, not without paying patent fees the examination without Qualcomm chips, hold 3G, 4G number of key patents in the field of Qualcomm patents can be used to collect patent licensing fees.

For the payment of patent fees to Qualcomm this, Meizu and no objections, does not agree with is the amount of royalties between the two sides.

Vice President of Meizu Linan compared negotiations with Qualcomm's patent to face each other for a "black box". " Box of terms is not opaque, it will not be able to ensure that markets are fair and just, so we cannot simply accept the high unilateral conditions. "He said, Meizu will actively respond to the suit, were willing to pay for, but it will not accept" black box "unfair mechanism of compulsory acts .

Said Wang yanhui, Qualcomm sued Meizu, is actually a stone carving. At home, mainly using the mediatek chip phone companies there are a lot, which is not positive for Qualcomm's licensing fees, most Qualcomm sued the manufacturer Meizu, is to create legal precedent, so that these companies took out his money.

Domestic patent protection of the environment is taking shape

"A sword of the patent has become a battle for market share, rather than companies say the icing on the cake decoration. "Patent data body p" ι s ″ "p wisdom bud Ding Feng senior patent analysts said. Ding Feng, said patents are now more as a marketing strategy using, sometimes a patent lawsuit to prevent the products put on the market, or the normal listed company, so for businesses, the role of patents becomes more and more important.

More mature in Europe and in intellectual property, patent suits are normal among enterprises of science and technology, and in the process of Chinese enterprises to go abroad, are no less patent barriers encountered. Prior to accumulation of domestic enterprises because of the lack of patents, can't really go out, only in the domestic market. Wang yanhui believes that some recent statements from the Government level as well as a number of enterprises, China's patent protection was intensified, more patents protecting the environment is taking shape, which is why the recent domestic patent lawsuit-prone because of the phone.

Wang yanhui said, in domestic of phone enterprise in the, Huawei in patent Shang of advantage is big, and Huawei of many patent is communications technology of bottom patent, this is other phone manufacturers cannot independent development of technology patent, plus Huawei years in overseas market and abroad giant are competition, patent war already used , so Huawei became domestic phone enterprise in the first using patent weapons of manufacturers does not accident. Another ZTE and Huawei is similar, he said, ZTE launched patent litigation should also have similar plans.

"Better patent protection of the environment in China's mobile phone industry is definitely a good thing, of course, some research and development, patents for a small number of manufacturers, life will become more difficult. "But Wang yanhui said patent lawsuits tends to a dozen years, the patent lawsuit does not directly impact on domestic consumers in the short term.

How to reinforce patent strength will determine the future of mobile phone brands

Although there are large patent like Huawei, ZTE, but for the majority of China's mobile phone brand, the patent is still in the development of short boards. On how to reinforce patent strength will determine the future of the brand.

Ding Feng introduction, enterprise access to patents in General, there are four ways: the first independently developed applications patents patent, which is a more orthodox gets patent, for research and development strength, innovation capability of enterprises, the majority of patents were obtained by independent research and development. Second, through the transfer of the patent to obtain patents, mainly enterprises, at this stage the lack of certain technical aspects of the patent, but due to the development of market needs, need from elsewhere (other enterprises, colleges and institutes or individual inventor) patent . Third was obtained by licensed right to use the patent of another person, companies pay the license fees for a period of time, you can use other technologies, specific scope of use according to the license agreement agreed. Licensee has a range of rights within a certain time, but patents do not transfer. For example, the majority of mobile phone chips from Qualcomm licenses to all major mobile phone manufacturers, mobile phone manufacturers need to pay licensing fees to the Qualcomm, but the franchise still belongs to Qualcomm. Forth through mergers and acquisitions, to obtain a patent, such as the Lenovo acquisition of Motorola, also won the Motorola mobility accumulation of a number of patents.

Ding Feng, said domestic handset margins are low, patent costs will be small and medium enterprises a bigger payout. But to improve mobile phone profit not subject to holds similar core technology giants such as Qualcomm patents cost money that cannot be avoided. Independent research and development an integral, while also considering a cooperation with University research institutes development, shorten the development cycle may also be reducing the cost.

核心技术专利缺乏：中国中国国产智能手机不能说的痛 - 中国国产手机,专利 - IT资讯

手机企业发新品喜欢扎堆，可如今连打官司都凑在了一起。近一个多月来，手机行业引发轰动的官司不断。华为起诉三星、佰利起诉苹果、高通起诉魅族，件件都吸引眼球。这些官司有不少共同点：都和知识产权有关，都涉及手机领域，都发生在中国企业和跨国巨头之间。在频发的专利官司之后，专利官司可能将成为手机行业竞争的常规武器。

华为诉三星

可能只是一个前奏

如今，全球手机前三名已经相对稳定，分别是三星、苹果和华为。为了占有市场，这三者之间很难长期和平相处。先是苹果和三星之间长达数年的专利大战，赔偿金额一改再改，涉及产品不断增加，也被称为“世纪专利大战”。就在这两家企业已经逐渐达成和解的时候，新的战局又开始了，这一次参战双方是华为和三星。

今年5月25日，华为公司宣布，在美国和中国提起对韩国三星公司的知识产权诉讼，起诉法院包括加州北区法院和深圳中级人民法院。华为在诉讼中要求三星公司就其知识产权侵权行为对华为进行赔偿，此次诉讼涉及4G标准专利和智能手机功能相关的专利。就在几天前，华为又一项起诉三星的案件被披露出来，华为在泉州中院对三星提起诉讼，并索赔8000万元人民币。华为认为，三星侵犯了其“一种可应用于终端组件显示的处理方法和用户设备”的发明专利。

在手机市场，华为将三星视为主要对手已经是公开的事实，华为消费者业务CEO余承东更是多次公开放话要在几年内超过三星，因此，这一次华为主动向三星发起专利诉讼也并不令人感到意外。

对于这场官司的前景，业内看法存在分歧，有的观点认为华为筹备已久，主动发起专利官司显然是对自己有信心的；但也有业内人士认为，三星在全球的专利布局上有相当的厚度，华为更主要的用意还是希望通过官司在全球范围扩大自己的品牌影响力。而多数人都认同的一点是，此类官司往往耗日持久，很大可能是以双方有条件和解而告终。

手机中国联盟秘书长王艳辉表示，华为起诉三星，只是在为发起全面维权战做铺垫，华为真正瞄准的是中国的其它手机品牌，希望能像高通、爱立信、诺基亚等国外巨头一样，收取不菲的专利授权费用。“华为起诉本土竞争对手侵权是早晚的事，只不过华为选择了更加稳妥的策略，首先从更注重知识产权保护的欧美入手，优先起诉已经习惯了缴纳专利费的国际大厂。”他说道。

佰利诉苹果

无钱无势对抗巨头

在近期的专利官司中，佰利告赢了苹果。一家没多少人听说过的企业，在专利上把苹果告赢了。

也是在5月份，北京市知识产权局作出的一份专利侵权案的处理结果，判定苹果iPhone6和iPhone6Plus两款手机侵犯了中国手机厂商佰利的外观设计专利，并责令苹果停售。

iPhone6、iPhone6plus两款手机。佰利方面提供的证据显示，其产品外观专利的申请时间早于苹果iPhone6发布9个月，而北京市知识产权局也认定“经过比对，被控侵权产品与涉案专利虽存在一系列的差别，但均属于一般消费者难以注意到的微小差异，故应当认定被控侵权产品与涉案专利无显著区别，落入涉案专利的保护范围”。

现在苹果已就北京知识产权局的这一决定提起行政诉讼，在北京知识产权法院作出审议之前，iPhone 6和iPhone 6Plus仍在中国正常销售。

苹果是不是抄袭了对方，很难定论，但从法律上讲，佰利在专利官司中处于有利的一方，最终苹果败诉的可能性也不小。不过，在一份声明中，佰利公司表示“只是希望澄清事实，保护自身创意设计和知识产权。佰利公司自始至终均无意影响苹果产品的销售。”佰利的代理律师甚至透露，佰利并未向苹果提出赔偿要求。

王艳辉认为，佰利是一家没钱没势的小公司，这也可能会影响这一案件最终的走向。佰利曾经做过手机，但是退出市场已有时日。“发动专利官司也是要靠财力的，法院方面需要交纳保证金，聘请专业的律师团队更是花销很大。”王艳辉表示，如果佰利有财力，最后打赢官司也有可能，但是因为没钱，现在连赔偿的要求都提不出来。

高通诉魅族

一箭多雕

一直向各手机厂商收取被称为“高通税”的专利授权费用的高通公司，终于把中国手机厂商告上了法庭，其选择的第一家中国手机品牌，就是魅族。上个月，高通公司向北京知识产权法院提交对魅族的起诉状。在此次诉讼中，高通向魅族索赔高达5.2亿元。

在所有的中国知名手机厂商中，魅族可能是与高通交集最少的，其手机产品基本采用联发科或者三星的芯片，仅有一款低端手机使用了高通的方案。然而并不是不用高通的芯片就无需缴纳专利费了，因为掌握着3G、4G领域的多项核心专利，高通可以向使用这些专利的厂商收取专利授权费用。

对应该向高通缴纳专利费用这一点，魅族并无异议，双方所不认同的是专利费的数额。

魅族副总裁李楠将与高通的专利谈判比作面临对方给的一个“黑盒”。“盒子里的条款是不公开不透明的，也就无法保证市场的公平和公正，所以我们难以简单接受高通单方面的条件。”他表示，魅族会积极应诉，愿意付费，但不会接受“黑盒”不合理机制下的强制性行为。

王艳辉表示，高通起诉魅族，实际上是一箭多雕。在国内，主要使用联发科芯片的手机企业还有不少，这些企业对高通的专利授权费用并不积极，高通起诉这些厂商里影响最大的魅族，就是希望形成判例，从而让这些厂商都掏出钱来。

国内专利保护环境正在形成

“专利已成为市场份额争夺战的一把利剑，而不再只是企业里常说的锦上添花的装饰而已。”专利数据机构P“ιS″“P智慧芽高级专利分析师丁凤说。丁凤表示，专利现在更多的是作为一种市场策略在运用，有时候一场专利诉讼可以阻止一个产品投放市场，或者一家公司的正常上市，所以对于企业来说，专利的作用变得越来越重要。

在知识产权更加成熟的欧美，专利官司是科技企业之间的常态，而中国企业在走出国门的过程中，也没少遇到专利壁垒。之前，一些国内企业因为缺乏专利积累，无法真正走出去，只能躲在国内市场。王艳辉认为，从政府高层近期的一些表态以及一些企业的动作来看，我国对于专利保护的力度正在加大，国内更多的专利保护环境正在形成，这也是为什么近期国内有关手机的专利官司频发的一个原因。

王艳辉表示，在国内的手机企业中，华为在专利上的优势很大，而且华为的很多专利是通信技术的底层专利，这也是其他手机厂商无法自主研发的技术专利，加上华为多年来在海外市场和国外巨头们竞争，专利战早已习以为常，所以华为成为国内手机企业中率先使用专利武器的厂商并不意外。另外一个和华为类似的是中兴通讯，他透露，中兴应该也会有类似发动专利诉讼的打算。

“更好的专利保护环境对我国的手机行业肯定是一件好事，当然对一些研发实力差、专利数量少的厂商来说，日子就会变得更难过了。”不过王艳辉也表示，专利官司往往一打就是多年，这些专利官司短期内不会对国内消费者带来直接影响。

如何补强专利实力将决定手机品牌的前途

虽然有华为、中兴这样的专利大户，但对于大多数的中国手机品牌来说，专利依然是发展中的短板。如何补强专利上的实力，将决定这些手机品牌的前途。

丁凤介绍，企业获得专利一般有四种途径：第一是自主研发申请专利获取专利权，这也是比较正统的一种获取专利权方式，对于研发实力强、创新能力高的企业，大部分专利都是自主研发获得的。第二是通过他人专利转让获取专利权，主要是企业在现阶段缺乏某技术方面的专利，但是由于市场发展的需要，需要从别处（其他企业、高校院所或者个体发明人）购买专利。第三是通过许可的方式获得他人专利的使用权，企业通过支付一段时间的许可费用，可以使用他人的技术，具体使用范围要根据许可协议商定。被许可方只是拥有一定时间内一定范围的权利，但是专利权并不会转移过来。比如，国内大部分的手机芯片都是由高通授权许可给各大手机厂商，各手机厂商需要向高通缴纳专利许可费，但是专利权仍属于高通。第四是通过企业的兼并重组等获取专利权，比如联想对摩托罗拉的收购，也获得了摩托罗拉移动积累的多项专利。

丁凤表示，对于国内手机利润不高的情况，专利成本确实会成为中小型企业一笔比较大的支出。但是若要提高手机利润，不受制于高通等类似握有核心技术的巨头，专利成本又是无法避免的一笔开支。自主研发不可或缺，同时也可考虑与高校研究院所进行合作开发，缩短研发周期，或许也可降低专利成本。