3 years of negotiations to convince the patent Thomson lotteries start ice-breaking trip together -
3 years of negotiations to convince the patent Thomson lotteries start ice-breaking trip together -
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TV
Exports outside the gate of the first hurdle.
2010 1 22, United Technology Co., Ltd. Shenzhen lotteries (hereinafter referred to as "win the lottery together") joint
TCL
, Konka, Skyworth and other 8 major domestic color TV enterprises, and Thomson entered into a period of 5 years of intellectual property rights agreement. Thus, the last three years of negotiations the two sides came to an end.
As the world's largest color TV patent holder, Thomson has a number of statistics 8000
TV
Patents, it every quarter prior to the Chinese color TV enterprises are collected royalties every three U.S. dollars. It is understood that, in the color television technology from analog to digital transformation process, up to 41 U.S. dollars per patent fees as a constraint to export China-made TV a major bottleneck. After the signing of the agreement, the two sides to the total annual settlement. "In this way, is expected to save lots of expense." Leader of a TV company was not without excitement, told reporters.
The same day and lotteries was declared the official carrier of Chinese color TV patent pool. It is reported that the patent pool responsible for the analysis of patents held by domestic firms, valuation, and cross-licensing and so on. At present, the first into the patent pool on more than 2,000 patents.
Nevertheless, these enterprises are still faint concerns surfaced in the face. He said that the signing and operations of Thomson patent pool, only a small step, China's color TV is still facing
Samsung
, Sony and many other enterprises in the patent threat.
Formation of joint lotteries
2007, the U.S. Federal
Communicate
Commission (FCC) regulations, since March 1 that year, the exports to the U.S. market, television must be digital television, 13 inches or more to the line advanced standard Committee (ATSC) standard. Subsequently, Thomson, Sony and many other ATSC patent owner sent to the Chinese color TV enterprises ask for a list of patent fees. According to statistics, the export of color TV sets each to pay royalties as high as 41 dollars.
The face of sudden crisis in the patent, March 9, 2007, TCL,
Changhong
, Konka, Skyworth and Hisense 10 domestic color TV enterprises invested one million yuan each accounted for 10% of shares, registered in Shenzhen set up a "win the lottery together." Refreshing the original construction of the new vice president of Division chairman, former director of TCL Luoqiu Lin, general manager R & D Center, China
Electronic
Video Industry Association does not account for the shares as a consultant.
Has been the face of Chinese color TV enterprises in addition to Qualcomm, Philips, Thomson Such formal patent rights, but also to deal with some "patent troll" small companies. These rogue companies use Chinese enterprises do not understand the complexity of patent issues, often collect a large number of outdated patent blackmail, Chinese enterprises have not do anything with lawsuits, costly and affect production, "silence money" will further stimulate their desire.
According to Luo Qiulin
introduced lotteries joint inception, received more than 10 companies from the United States patent licensing royalty demands. In 2008, a U.S. company claimed to have 8,000 well-known brand patents require royalties to the Chinese collection. Win the lottery joint investigation revealed that most of the patents are expired, outdated technology, low-tech junk patents invalid. Another claimed to have two patents of U.S. patent company, since 2004, has been China's major TV companies to collect royalties, it sued the Shanghai subsidiary of a company in the United States. Win the lottery this lawsuit Union agent found the other pure blackmail, and finally lifted the basic patent threat to China's color TV enterprises save millions of dollars each year's expenditures.
Negotiations involving a wide range of color TV patents, professional and strong need not only to understand the intellectual property related laws and regulations, but also have a comprehensive knowledge of TV technology professionals. Win the lottery together has been to attract people in this area, currently has eight well-known lawyer. According to reports, the first months after the establishment of lotteries together, it began negotiations with Thomson, suspected of belonging to Thomson's proprietary technology, needs 11 screening and determined that the middle of the process is very difficult, and therefore, the negotiations dragged on 3 years . 3 ways to make your office look Christmasy 3 ways to make your office look Christmasy 3 ways to make sure long-distance relatives aren't forgotten at Christmas 3 ways to make sure long-distance relatives aren't forgotten at Christmas 3 ways to let Santa know what you want for Christmas 3 ways to let Santa know what you want for Christmas 3 ways to identify a Rio personal tour guide for a great Rio city tour 3 kinds of comparison and synchronization for SQL Server database 3 great destinations for travel in October 3 excuses you might hear from a London Courier Company 3 easy steps to the BackCountry Hero 3-day Lego Beach Party Swims In For Memorial Day Weekend At Legoland Discovery Center In Schaumburg 3-day Animation Festival