Recently, a movement of Huawei splashed a lot of waves, causing many netizens to talk about it. According to the Tianyancha news, Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. has added a new court announcement, the cause of the case is a "dispute of infringement of invention patent rights". The plaintiff is naturally Huawei, while the defendant is surprising.
Day Eye Check shows that Amazon Company, Amazon Service Company, Amazon Information Service (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Renbao Computer Industry Co., Ltd., Renbao Electronic Technology (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. and others have jointly become the defendants in this case.
It is obvious that Amazon infringed on a certain patent of Huawei in the past, and then Huawei chose to protect its rights. The former is likely to have to compensate and stop the infringement.
Ren Zhengfei: Huawei has not had time to collect patent fees in the past
In the past two years, we will find that there are more and more examples of Huawei protecting rights and charging fees around patent issues. Many people will be troubled, why didn’t I often hear that Huawei charges patent fees in the past? In fact, Ren Zhengfei had answered this question publicly as early as 2019.
He said that Huawei and many companies have cross-licensing and paying for each other. There are many large companies in the world who are paying patent fees to Huawei, but they cannot disclose the specific shares. As for those parts that should not be collected, Mr. Ren said: "Huawei is developing too fast and has no time to collect patent fees. Even if it has to collect patent fees, it will not charge as much as , Qualcomm ."
Another time Ren Zhengfei said: Domestic patent protection is not yet perfect, so I will talk about it later.
The real reason why there is no patent fee
From Mr. Ren’s words, Huawei is not very concerned about the issue of charging patent fees. Is this really the case? The author believes that "no time" is one aspect, but more importantly, Huawei does not need to accept it at all!
First of all, when the patent fee is infringed, it is generally necessary to sue to protect the rights, while large companies like Huawei sometimes require very long lawsuits to resolve the problem. It’s like , Apple and Qualcomm, had a lawsuit for several years before they settled. Therefore, if it is not a particularly important patent, Huawei may really have no time to deal with it;
Secondly, Huawei relies on patents to exchange patents with other companies to make patent authorizations more conducive to the long-term development of the company. Not only did I make friends, I also lost no money.
Last and most important reason, Huawei and Qualcomm are different. In the field of communications, Qualcomm basically does not make much products now, and relying solely on technology to make money on patents. But Huawei is different. It mainly serves equipment suppliers. Patents serve products. Relatively speaking, patents have relatively less revenue, so Huawei has always focused on the product market and does not attach much importance to patent fees.
Based on it, we will find that Mr. Ren is actually very kind, using patents as favors, and also helping Huawei develop better.
counterattack began, and she was not used to the US company
, but we also know what happened later. The US directly did not allow any business, and even banned Huawei and cut off the supply of chips on its smartphone . As various restrictions were released, Huawei's market share declined sharply, and it was severely hit.
At this time, Huawei actually recognized the true face of beauty. Since business cannot be done, Huawei will continue to let you use patents for free. What is the purpose? So in the past year, we will find that Huawei has collected more and more patent fees, and some patent infringements that have been neglected have also begun to protect their rights. Especially some foreign companies, they are even more disgusted.
In fact, Huawei's counterattack is not very fierce, it is just a legitimate protection of patent rights. But behind this reflects the change in "attitude". Huawei does not just be beaten and refuses to fight back. In the past, it was not to give face but not to charge money. If you want to turn against each other, then you will spit out all the money!
