China news agency, Guangzhou, April 15 (Suo Youwei and Duan Yong) - Said the Guangdong Province Higher Court on the 15th, the Siemens Industry in China for the first time filed seven patent disputes in the litigation was resolved after three years.
Siemens Industrial Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens. February 2007, the company two patents respectively in Shenzhen Confidence Automation Technology Co., Ltd. (collectively the letter the company) production of 7 products to the Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court filed a patent infringement lawsuit, claiming the 1724 million yuan, which Siemens in China's first patent infringement suit filed.
Shenzhen Intermediate Court in November 2008 first instance verdict, Siemens Industrial Company 2 wins and 5 losses. Each side dissatisfied, were appealed. During the second trial, the State Patent Reexamination Board of the Siemens Industrial company two patents invalid and all the parts to make the decision invalid, Siemens industrial companies and to this end are administrative proceedings.
Guangdong High Court upheld the argument of the parties to the dispute during the actual situation, decided to seek mediation closed. Subsequently, the joint letter clearly expresses the company to stop production, no compensation settlement intention, but that no settlement. The Siemens Industry Company because of language and cultural differences, the impact of corporate decision making, and time differences and other factors led to the long time-consuming communication, mediation and even the book's textual representation of the period need to be agents of change, together with China Siemens headquarters in English, German has the United States and German Headquarters report, after the decision by the headquarters to be feedback. The settlement agreement only to correct reversed two digits of a small clerical error, on time and a half months.
After 8 months of repeated mediation, both sides in the March 2010 settlement agreement, joint letter of the company to stop production of the allegedly infringing products, Siemens claims for industrial companies to give up, own a second trial, the cost of litigation, the company bear the joint letter of appeal fees half of 8800 yuan. Complete