The United States allegedly infringes on Chinese chip equipment and was detained by Shanghai Customs at Pudong Airport.
Li Wei
Yesterday (26th) is the World Intellectual Property Protection Day. The Liberation Daily and Shangguan reporter learned from Shanghai Customs that while the intellectual property rights of Chinese enterprises were infringed by their peers, there were also new situations of intellectual property disputes with European and American companies. In this regard, Shanghai Customs spares no effort to help Chinese companies to crack down on infringement, so that enterprises can get rid of the burden and focus on development.
Stop importing allegedly infringing equipment at Pudong Airport
Micro-Semiconductor Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is a research enterprise with independent research and development functions. It has developed a variety of chip devices with independent intellectual property rights and applied for more than 1,200 patents worldwide. With the gradual expansion of the international market share, China and the United States and a company in the United States have intellectual property disputes. At the beginning of this year, China Micro Corporation was informed that the US company suspected of infringing the patent rights of China Micro-Public Company will soon be imported from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, and immediately filed an application with Shanghai Customs to detain suspected infringing goods. Shanghai Customs promptly launched the intellectual property customs protection procedures, carried out administrative enforcement in the import chain, and suspended the customs clearance of suspected infringing equipment according to the application of the right holder. The value of the equipment was 34 million yuan.
With the involvement of the Customs in law enforcement, the US began to face up to China Micro's independent research and development patents and its intellectual property rights in China, and initiated negotiations with China and Microelectronics, and the two parties finally reached a global mutual authorization agreement.
The infringing cloth buckled by the customs can circle the earth 1/4 circle
The “Yinhe†brand trademark, once used as a banner for Shanghai textile exports, was dying due to counterfeiting and infringement, but it was reorganized under the full protection of Shanghai Customs.
The old-fashioned state-owned Shanghai Textiles Import and Export Co., Ltd., its "Yinhe" brand trademark has been used since 1959, at that time, it has registered trademark registration procedures in more than 40 countries and regions around the world. In 1985, the annual export volume of the "Galaxy" trademark was as high as 130 million U.S. dollars, which was a banner for textile exports from Shanghai and even China in the early days of reform and opening up. However, after selling in the international market, counterfeit and infringing products have followed. Gong Peide, general manager of the company recalled that at that time, various "Galaxy" cotton polyester cloths with uneven quality were flooding the world, and foreign customers exclaimed, ""Yinhe" has become a common trademark of Chinese textile fabrics." At the same time, the export volume of “Galaxy†in the main sales markets such as Africa, North America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia fell sharply. The annual export volume fell to the bottom of 30 million US dollars and was forced to withdraw from the US and European markets.
In 1994, Customs began to explore intellectual property border protection. On October 1, 1995, the "Regulations on Customs Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of the People's Republic of China" was officially implemented. The regulations clarified the intellectual property rights of the Customs relating to import and export goods and protected by the laws and administrative regulations of the People's Republic of China, including trademark exclusive rights and copyrights. Patent protection, etc. Shanghai Textiles Import and Export Co., Ltd., which felt the pain of infringement, filed an application for intellectual property filing with the General Administration of Customs in 1996. At that time, the “Yinhe†trademark was dying. Soon, Shanghai Customs started the round of guns and seized two cases of counterfeiting "Galaxy" trademarks. The national customs also closely monitored the illegal acts of counterfeiting the "Yinhe" trademark, and successively seized more than 50 cases of export infringement of counterfeit "Yinhe" series of trademarks. The total number of infringing cloths seized reached 10 million meters, and the length could be 1/4 circle around the earth. .
"There are fewer fakes on the market, and our brand has slowly come alive. The export volume has been rising year by year." Gong Peide said that the total export value of Shanghai textile products has increased nearly three times before the holiday.
Shanghai Customs seized the highest number of infringing goods in the country
However, even today, when intellectual property protection is improving day by day, there are still fortunate infringing companies trying to get something for nothing. In September last year, the National Customs launched the “Longteng Action†focusing on the protection of enterprises with independent intellectual property rights. Among them, Shanghai Customs seized more than 6,000 volumes of the cloth of the “Fairy Dance†trademark of Shanghai Textile, with a value of nearly 700,000 yuan. .
"With the intellectual property protection provided by Customs, we can focus on doing our own brand, and we don't have to worry about the brand that was made easily any day, and it has been smashed by fakes." Gong Peide said.
Liberation Daily · Shangguan reporter learned from Shanghai Customs that since the launch of the customs intellectual property protection work in 1995, Shanghai Customs has investigated and handled 6,600 various types of infringement cases, and seized more than 310 million pieces of various types of import and export infringing goods. The case value exceeded 1 billion yuan. Renminbi. The latest release of "2017 China Customs Intellectual Property Protection Status" shows that the total number of infringing goods seized by Shanghai Customs last year ranked first in the national customs.
(Original title: US company suspected of infringing Chinese chip equipment, detained by customs at Pudong Airport)
(Editor: Li Jiajia HN153)
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