IPRdaily News: On April 24, 20 18, Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court publicly pronounced three cases of patent infringement dispute between Gree Electric and Oaks. After a rigorous trial, Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court found out the facts and fully listened to the statements of both parties, and found that more than one air-conditioning product 10 of Oaks Golden Man, Speedman, Geek, etc. infringed three patents of Gree Electric, such as water-dish integration, double air duct air conditioning and air-conditioning indoor unit, and sentenced Oaks to compensate Gree Electric for 46 million economic losses, setting a new record for patent infringement compensation in the home appliance industry.
First, Oaks once again violated Gree Electric's patent right.
Cattle's infringement of Gree Electric's patent right is not a "first offense", but a "second offense". 2065438+August 2006, Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court ruled in the first instance that Oaks "L-shaped" air-conditioning products infringed Gree Electric's patent right on the integration of stop structure, buffer structure and drip tray, compensated Gree Electric for 2.3 million yuan, and immediately stopped selling infringing air-conditioning products; 20 17 Guangdong provincial high court rejected oaks' appeal and upheld the original judgment of the first instance; From 2065438 to September 2007, the Supreme Court rejected Oakes' application for retrial.
Second, Oaks has repeatedly maliciously infringed Gree Electric's patent rights.
No matter 20 17 or 20 18, there is a patent drawing of "integrated technology of upper and lower water trays and bottom shells". It turned out that as early as 20 15, Gree Electric first discovered that two L series air-conditioning products of Oaks were suspected of infringing the patent of "integration technology of upper and lower water trays and bottom shells" and sued; During the first trial, Oaks continued to infringe the patent and applied it to more than 30 kinds of products including new products in 2065438+2007. Therefore, 20 18 Oaks infringement case was triggered.
Third, Gree Electric insists on independent innovation and strengthens intellectual property protection.
Gree Electric regards innovation as its life and strengthens the protection of intellectual property rights. It is reported that there are nearly 100 patents on air conditioning layout in a "painting era" in Gree Electric, and there are a large number of patents on the whole, components and control.
In order to change the lifestyle of human beings and provide consumers with a higher quality of life, Gree Electric adheres to the concept of independent innovation and development, with no upper limit on scientific research investment, attaches importance to the independent training of talents, and is committed to the construction of independent innovation system. Since 20 12, Gree Electric has promoted innovation to the strategic height of enterprise transformation, pushed Gree Electric to realize the transformation from "scale-driven" to "innovation-driven" development, and transformed itself into a global industrial group by independently creating core technologies.
Since 20 12, under the leadership of Dong Mingzhu, chairman of Gree Electric, Gree Electric's total business volume has exceeded 0.5 times that of the previous 2 1 year, its total net profit has exceeded 3 times that of the previous 2 1 year, and its total tax payment has exceeded 2.7 times that of the previous 2 1 year. The total amount of accumulated dividends exceeds 6.7 times of the total amount of accumulated dividends in the past 16 years, the number of invention patent applications is 5 times of that in the past 2 15 years, and the number of invention grants is 5 times of that in the past 2 16 years.
In order to protect the achievements of independent innovation, promote the upgrading of core technologies and occupy the strategic highland of technology, Gree Electric has implemented an intellectual property strategy that is highly integrated with enterprise development. Gree Electric expands its market share and promotes enterprise development by means of innovation-driven, free use and legal "monopoly"; Improve intellectual property business, establish information-oriented workflow, pursue high-quality quality control process, build a high-quality and multi-faceted talent team, and build a full-process business and management system integrating intellectual property and technology research and development, effectively supporting and promoting enterprise innovation-driven development.
At present, Gree Electric has applied for 38,877 patents and obtained 4 129 invention authorizations. Registered trademarks are distributed in more than 200 countries around the world, and the cumulative number of trademark applications exceeds 1000. For two consecutive years, 20 16 and 20 17, Gree's invention application and invention authorization both entered the top ten in China. At the same time, it won three national science and technology progress awards and two China patent design gold awards.
Fourth, Gree awakens the innovation consciousness of enterprises and creates an environment atmosphere of independent innovation.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, China has strengthened the protection of intellectual property rights. Gree Electric actively protects its legitimate rights and interests, not only to protect the achievements of independent innovation, but also to awaken the innovation consciousness of enterprises. Enterprise innovation needs a lot of investment and return, and innovation can last, while the infringement of something for nothing will seriously undermine the sustainability of enterprise innovation. Under the requirement of innovation-driven development, if China's manufacturing industry wants to innovate independently and change from China manufacturing to China creation, it must severely crack down on the infringement of independent intellectual property rights and create a fair competitive market environment.