After China's accession to the WTO, China’s consumer electronics companies were frequently subject to patent lawsuits by multinational corporations. The experience of DVDs is well known. Now MP3s are facing the same fate as DVDs in the United States.
According to reports, the US SigmaTel filed a lawsuit against the US International Trade Commission (ITC) on the grounds that Zhuhai Actions Integrated Circuit Design Co., Ltd. infringed a number of its chip patents for MP3 players and requested ITC to use "337 clauses." Actions by Zhuhai for sanctions. Prior to January 5, SigmaTel also issued an announcement announcing that it had filed a lawsuit against the Federal Court of the City of Austin, USA, requesting the ban on the export of products using the Zhuhai Actions MP3 chip to the United States.
Actions is a chip supplier based on IC design. Its users include Lenovo, Patriot, Founder, Ziguang, BENQ, Zarva and other MP3 mainstream manufacturers. As an upstream product manufacturer, the position of Zhuhai Actions in China's MP3 industry can be described as a whole. Although Chinese companies still lack real core technologies in the global consumer electronics field, on the MP3, the single-chip technology of Zhuhai Actions has significantly reduced the production costs of terminal manufacturers and accelerated the speed of MP3 adoption in the market. This is also the root cause of SigmaTel’s “killer†for Actionstar in Zhuhai.
This patent lawsuit once again demonstrated the "patent hegemony" of technology-led American companies. With the integration of the global economy, the foundation for the survival and development of enterprises is more based on the maintenance of the achievements of patented technologies. Through the maintenance of patented technologies, the monopoly guarantee of survival rights is formed. In the patent lawsuit of Actions Action and SigmaTel in Zhuhai, SigmaTel chose to start from the upstream manufacturers of China's MP3 industry chain in order to deprive China's growing consumer electronics industry of its right to survive in the international market in the future.
The author believes that the domestic electronics manufacturers that are completing manufacturing advantages and forming excellent performance-to-price ratios should reflect more deeply on how to establish a "patent strategy" firewall in a highly competitive consumer electronics market. This kind of patent strategy requires an international market. Vision, such as international patent registration, authorization, and so on, in the environment where consumer electronics products have become internationalized in the domestic market, not only passively respond to patent lawsuits of multinational corporations, but should take the initiative to attack. This attack should be effective. The international patent strategy, in turn, has the initiative to survive in competition with multinational corporations.
According to reports, the US SigmaTel filed a lawsuit against the US International Trade Commission (ITC) on the grounds that Zhuhai Actions Integrated Circuit Design Co., Ltd. infringed a number of its chip patents for MP3 players and requested ITC to use "337 clauses." Actions by Zhuhai for sanctions. Prior to January 5, SigmaTel also issued an announcement announcing that it had filed a lawsuit against the Federal Court of the City of Austin, USA, requesting the ban on the export of products using the Zhuhai Actions MP3 chip to the United States.
Actions is a chip supplier based on IC design. Its users include Lenovo, Patriot, Founder, Ziguang, BENQ, Zarva and other MP3 mainstream manufacturers. As an upstream product manufacturer, the position of Zhuhai Actions in China's MP3 industry can be described as a whole. Although Chinese companies still lack real core technologies in the global consumer electronics field, on the MP3, the single-chip technology of Zhuhai Actions has significantly reduced the production costs of terminal manufacturers and accelerated the speed of MP3 adoption in the market. This is also the root cause of SigmaTel’s “killer†for Actionstar in Zhuhai.
This patent lawsuit once again demonstrated the "patent hegemony" of technology-led American companies. With the integration of the global economy, the foundation for the survival and development of enterprises is more based on the maintenance of the achievements of patented technologies. Through the maintenance of patented technologies, the monopoly guarantee of survival rights is formed. In the patent lawsuit of Actions Action and SigmaTel in Zhuhai, SigmaTel chose to start from the upstream manufacturers of China's MP3 industry chain in order to deprive China's growing consumer electronics industry of its right to survive in the international market in the future.
The author believes that the domestic electronics manufacturers that are completing manufacturing advantages and forming excellent performance-to-price ratios should reflect more deeply on how to establish a "patent strategy" firewall in a highly competitive consumer electronics market. This kind of patent strategy requires an international market. Vision, such as international patent registration, authorization, and so on, in the environment where consumer electronics products have become internationalized in the domestic market, not only passively respond to patent lawsuits of multinational corporations, but should take the initiative to attack. This attack should be effective. The international patent strategy, in turn, has the initiative to survive in competition with multinational corporations.