Insight: Patent Wars in Battery Industry – VARTA and EVE
On April 1, 2022, the State Intellectual Property Office announced that a Chinese patent ZL201710419111.X (named “a hard-shell battery shell sealing structure and its processing process”) invention…
Read moreFeature Article: Discussion on the Independence of Trade Secret Civil and Criminal Litigations （Part 1）
Author: Song Jian, High People’s Court in Jiangsu province, former senior judge, National Trial Expert Article selected and sourced from《China Patent and Trademark》No. 2, 2022 It is…
Read moreBottle Neck Tech Patent Lawsuits: Murata v. Wuxi Haoda, SAW Filters
In June 2021, the prospectus of Wuxi City Haoda Electronics Co., Ltd. disclosed a patent lawsuit that occurred in January of this year, initiated by Murata Manufacturing…
Read moreFeature Article: Law Application of Criminal and Civil Cross Cases involving Trade Secrets
Author Dongxiao Ma, parter of Zhonglun Law Firm In 2021, the Supreme People’s Court published Top Ten Model Anti-monopoly and Anti-unfair Competition Cases Tried by the People’s…
Read more$50 million, 2nd round, Ronbay again hit by Umicore targeting 811
In $62 Million, 1st Round, Ternary lithium Battery Patent Wars of Umicore vs. Ronbay, on October 8, 2021, Ronbay announced that it won the first trial of the…
Read more$62 Million, 1st Round, Ternary lithium Battery Patent Wars of Umicore vs. Ronbay
Lithium battery has always been the hotspot for significant patent suits. From 2020 Umicore started the patent wars against Ronbay Technology involving the cathode material of ternary…
Read moreFeature Article: Whether the implicit use of keywords constitutes unfair competition in China
Author: Andrea Liang, senior associate In 2021, the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court heard the case of unfair competition dispute between Shanghai Hongyun Software Technology Co.,…
Read moreFeature Article: Determination of Computer Software Copyright Infringement of Malicious Evasion of Technical Measures
Author: Peng Zhang, partner of Zhonglun Law FirmArticle 48, Paragraph 1, Item 6 of China Copyright Law stipulates that “without the permission of the copyright owner or…
Read moreRMB 300 million! Nippon Steel claimed three patents for electromagnetic steel sheets for automobiles against Baosteel Co., Ltd.
In the mid-August, Baosteel Co., Ltd. issued a lawsuit announcement claiming: Recently, Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. has successively received Nippon Steel Corporation (Nippon Steel) Court…
Read moreSupreme People’s Court upheld Johnson & Johnson Synthes 20 million judgment in favor against China Double Medical
On August 9, the Supreme People’s Court ruled on the patent infringement case against Double Medical Technology Co., Ltd. by Swiss Synthes, a subsidiary of Johnson &…
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