A Case Of Intellectual Property Disputes Strikes The Alarm Bell Of Shishi Dyeing Industry

Recently, a case of intellectual property equipment disputes in the field has aroused widespread concern and discussion in Shishi printing and dyeing industry.

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Water ripples on the surface, and intellectual property rights will become a hot issue that Shishi manufacturing industry has to face and face.

Shishi is one of the important clusters of printing and dyeing industry in China. It is a huge competition market for printing and dyeing machinery and equipment. Local printing and dyeing enterprises mainly consider energy efficiency, stability, economy and so on when purchasing equipment, and seldom care about intellectual property rights.

Now, Shishi dyeing and printing enterprises have also encountered challenges in the practical principles of purchasing equipment, because after a period of legal proceedings, a case of intellectual property disputes in dyeing machines is expected to be closed in the near future. Once the winning party puts forward the requirements for sealing up the infringing products, the printing and dyeing enterprises that purchase and use the product may get into an embarrassing situation.

The industry is a key industry of national energy conservation and emission reduction and pollution control. Therefore, relevant dyeing machine production plants have developed environmental protection dyeing machines with energy saving and consumption reduction, and focused on developing the market of Shishi dyeing machine.

A dyeing and printing equipment manufacturer in the field has developed a power saving, environmental protection, multi purpose patent printing and dyeing equipment, which has been reacted well after several trials of several printing and dyeing enterprises in Shishi.

In March 2010, the State Intellectual Property Office (IPR) officially patented the inventors and patented producers, and the manufacturers were confident in developing new dyeing machines.

But contrary to expectations, the market sales situation is not satisfactory. Later, similar products were found to be overlapped in the market competition. The competitive enterprises in Shishi production, after comparing and analyzing the technical characteristics of the equipment, the field equipment manufacturers thought that the patent right of technology was seriously violated, and then they were placed in court with the similar equipment production enterprises of Shishi.

In June 2011, the patent owner initiated a patent infringement lawsuit against Shishi equipment manufacturer.

As a defendant, Shishi enterprise should sue and request the State Intellectual Property Office to make a claim for invalidation of the patent right of the patented person, and deny his infringement.

In October 2011, the Patent Reexamination Board agreed to accept and set up a collegial panel in accordance with the law. The Intellectual Property Office of the State Intellectual Property Office decided to maintain the patent right of the plaintiff in April 28th this year.

In June this year, an intellectual property appraisal institute in Shanghai was commissioned by the court to accept the identification of the technical characteristics of Shishi equipment manufacturers.

The plaintiff patent holder applied to the court for the preservation of evidence by the suspected infringing machine of the printing and dyeing equipment manufacturer, and the printing and dyeing enterprise also bought the equipment to the Shishi equipment manufacturing enterprise and became a defendant involved in the case.

After technical analysis and comparison, at the end of July this year, the appraisers thought that the defendant and the plaintiff's technology were all the same or equivalent, and issued a judicial appraisal opinion.

With the progress of case trials, the intellectual property cases have been clarified. Although the case has certain relevance with the Shishi printing and dyeing industry, it is actually an intellectual property dispute outside the Shishi printing and dyeing industry. It has attracted the attention of the lion and lion dyeing and printing industry. Besides the Shishi dyeing and printing enterprise, it may pay a certain price for buying the suspected infringing equipment products, and more importantly, the case sounded the alarm for the construction and protection of the intellectual property rights in the Shishi printing and dyeing industry.

In this regard, insiders pointed out that in recent years, with the protection of intellectual property rights awareness of enterprises, especially those with innovative ability,

Enterprises have built intellectual property defense systems one after another, and the number of applications for intellectual property rights such as patents has increased rapidly. Once intellectual property infringement acts endangering the survival of enterprises, enterprises will take up the protective weapons of intellectual property rights to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.