On February 6, Huawei announced that it had filed a lawsuit against the US operator Verizon in the Eastern and Western District Courts of Texas, requesting the court to determine that Verizon had infringed on 12 patents authorized by Huawei in the United States. Request Verizon to compensate Huawei for its patent infringement.

Song Liuping, Huawei's chief legal officer, said that Verizon has benefited from infringing products and damaged Huawei's years of research and development results. It is reported that Huawei invests 10 to 15% of its revenue in R&D every year. In the past ten years, its cumulative R&D expenses have exceeded US$70 billion. It has more than 80,000 patents worldwide, including more than 10,000 in the United States alone.

When it comes to Huawei, everyone in China knows it. It can be said that Huawei has always been the pride of the Chinese people. It insists on using technology and products to give back to consumers, and it represents China's intelligent manufacturing going to the world. This time Huawei sued Verizon, it was regarded as a domestic technology company's "showing its sword" to the world, and it quickly became a hot search topic. In fact, when it comes to lawsuits, disputes continue not only between technology companies, but also between car companies. Today, we will continue Huawei’s lawsuit against Verizon and take a look at the lawsuits between car companies!

Geely sues WM Motor

Everyone will be familiar with Geely suing WM Motor. After all, this is a dispute between a traditional OEM and a new car company. For these two major car-making forces, people have long started discussing whether they can survive together? As the market declined, what was supposed to come finally came, but Geely fired the first shot.

As early as September last year, according to data from the Shanghai Higher People’s Court website, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Geely Automobile Research Institute sued WM Automotive Technology Group and WM Smart Travel on the grounds of infringement of trade secrets. Technology, WM Motor Manufacturing Wenzhou Company, WM New Energy Vehicle Sales Company. This is not only the first intellectual property infringement case initiated by a Chinese independent car company, but the claim amount is as high as 2.1 billion yuan. Judging from the current claim amount for knowledge product disputes in China's automobile industry, this amount has set a record so far.

On September 17, the case was officially heard at the Shanghai Higher People's Court. Because the case was a closed trial and a confidentiality agreement was signed, not much information was released in the end, and the result was inconclusive. Know. However, judging from the reply of Weimar President Shen Hui, "There is no infringement and we are very confident in winning this lawsuit," Weimar is very confident in winning this lawsuit. As for the final result, both car companies have remained silent, and the outside world is also waiting for the day when the truth will be revealed.

Land Rover sues Land Rover

The patent dispute between Jaguar Land Rover and Jiangling Land Rover is almost the first successful domestic automobile design patent protection case. Maybe everyone is not familiar with Landwind, but everyone is definitely familiar with its Landwind X7. After all, it was a hit back then, with sales exceeding 10,000 within two weeks of its launch. Many car owners joked, "If I can't afford a Land Rover, I might as well give the Landwind a try." Through the ridicule of car owners, we can see the similarities between Landwind X7 and Land Rover.

Faced with this situation, Land Rover angrily sued Land Rover for plagiarism, but unfortunately they did not win that year. However, Land Rover did not give up and continued to collect evidence and data. Finally, in early March last year, Land Rover finally sued Land Rover. According to the ruling of the Beijing Chaoyang District Court, the Land Wind X7 produced by China Jiangling Motors plagiarized the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque in five model designs. And was judged to stop production immediately. The production, sales and marketing of the Landwind X7 were ordered to stop immediately, and Jiangling Motors will also pay compensation to Jaguar Land Rover.

Land Rover successfully sued Landwind, which is regarded as a major classic case in the history of "copycat" of Chinese independent automobile brands. It also serves as a warning to independent brands not to repeat the same mistakes. All imitation and copycat designs are likely to Being accused, it is necessary to improve the originality of the vehicle and improve its own technology.

Sichuan Mustang sued Ford

We have only seen cases of joint venture brands suing independent brands, but it is rare for independent brands to sue joint venture brands. After all, our independent brands started late in the automobile industry and lack a voice in this industry. Of course, there are exceptions to everything, such as the Sichuan Mustang suing Ford this time.

As early as 2016, Sichuan Mustang Automobile Co., Ltd. sued Ford Motor (China) Co., Ltd. of the United States for suspected trademark infringement of the Chinese name of the MUSTANG model, and demanded compensation of RMB 10 million. After two years of litigation, the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court finally made a first-instance judgment in which Sichuan Yema Automobile Co., Ltd. won the case and was awarded 1 million yuan in compensation.

When we look at this lawsuit now, the outcome remains to be discussed, but it is definitely a win-win situation. First of all, although the two have gone to court, their positioning is different and there is no direct competition. No matter who wins or loses, sales will not be affected. In addition, both of them have gained some public attention. It is as simple as making headlines, which has won exposure for each.

Why do car company lawsuits appear frequently?

There are actually countless cases of disputes between car companies. We will not list them one by one. Let’s discuss them. For the sake of the relationship between car companies Litigation cases will arise frequently. In my opinion, all this is due to the intensification of market competition. If there are only a few car companies in the world, they will be in peace with each other and there will basically not be too many disputes. After all, you can make money just lying down. , who still has the heart to litigate.

Nowadays, with the intensification of market competition, whoever has the core technology will have the right to speak and be in an invincible position. It can be said that protecting core technology is protecting one's own lifeline. Therefore, major car companies will definitely seek justice for themselves for plagiarizing or borrowing from their own products, even going to court. This is not only a way for car companies to protect their own rights and interests, but also makes it impossible for those models who have a sense of luck to escape.

In general, both Huawei and car companies, as market competition intensifies, have protected their rights and interests to varying degrees, and have even gone to court. In the future, we believe that there will be more and more lawsuits like this, and more car companies will take up legal weapons to protect themselves.

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