Presumably, the friends already know about this:
Huawei sued Xiaomi for patent infringement
Although we have been paying attention to the machine circle for many years, it is not uncommon for us to see each other beating and tearing between various large manufacturers.
But when "National Service First" meets "Android Light"...
Without exaggeration, this is a realistic version of "Batman v Superman".
Its popularity is so high, its rarity is difficult, its rarity is amazing...
So that although I am separated by a mobile phone screen, I can smell the melon-eating masses, and the freshly opened watermelon on hand is fragrant~
The so-called early is better than coincidental.
Let's talk about this today.
As far as the matter itself is concerned, it is big and small.
"Big" is also really big
To a large extent, Xiaomi this time, touched Huawei's four patents...
In order to figure out what exactly the patent is.
Brother Ji also took advantage of my precious off-duty time yesterday... Finally, from our national patent library, we dug up all of them.
Isn't your brother powerful?
According to the category, there are actually only two simple categories:
"Communication Patent" and "Functional Patent"
- Communication patents
There are two communication patents, namely 201110269715.3 and 201010137731.2. (Remember, you'll use it later)
These two are related patents around LTE, that is, 4G.
4G, as a mature and perfect communication standard.
The supporting patents behind it have long been dense, cross-crossing... Just like Guangzhou Metro Line 3, the latecomers don't say they want to get on the train, and they don't even have a place to stay.
Huawei's two patents involve essential patents such as mobile phone 4G standards and interaction between mobile phones and base stations, which are equivalent to the importance of the underlying framework level of the system.
Frankly speaking, as long as you make a mobile phone, you can't bypass the communication patent, unless you don't do 4G.
As for the second, functional patents.
- Functional patents
The two patents, 201380073251.6 and 201810188201.7, can guess a general function just by looking at the title.
According to their patent details and patent background, Brother Ji can roughly judge -
The patent with tail number 251.6 is, to put it bluntly, the "front panoramic photo" function.
The function corresponding to the tail number 201.7 patent should be the operation of automatically replacing the lock screen wallpaper with the bright screen.
Looking at it this time, the machine brother feels that to a greater extent, it refers to the technical principle behind the function, which may be somewhat similar between Huawei and Xiaomi.
For example, the implementation logic of panoramic selfies.
Or, it's the step of brightening the screen to automatically change wallpaper.
Since Huawei really holds the patent and sued Xiaomi for infringement, why does the machine brother still say "small is small"?
Because ah, when looking through Huawei's patent-related materials, Brother Ji remembered some old stories.
Patent wars of those years
First of all, there are communication patents 201110269715.3 and 201010137731.2, these two big brothers.
I don't know if friends remember, what about Huawei VS Samsung in 2016?
It's a coincidence.
At that time, Samsung also infringed Huawei's two communication patents, and the two negotiated privately for many years without results, and finally Samsung was sued in court.
But hey, this case is a little different from Huawei and Xiaomi.
You know, Huawei and Samsung are actually giants in the field of communications.
Although it is not as good as Huawei and Qualcomm, but the Samsung is also a third.
The two pulled each other, and Samsung also sued Huawei in turn.
But!
In the end, the case ended with Samsung losing the lawsuit and losing money to remove the product.
But boom!
If you check it later, you will find that Huawei and Samsung still have mutual patent cross-authorization.
Even if the commercial mutual litigation between the two did not end there.
That's because, in today's globalized world, technology has long been globalized.
There will no longer be the kind of enterprise that is the only one and alone to take on the pillar of the industry's communication standards.
Huawei, Qualcomm, Samsung, Nokia... Yes, too.
Looking at the global communication standards, 5G or 4G, are all "patchworked" by the owner and the west.
You use mine, I use yours, negotiate and sign an agreement to solve it.
If there is no good negotiation, it is inevitable that there will be litigation.
But what about the lawsuit, it doesn't have to be your life and death, everyone is fighting for only rights... Oops, it's just money.
For example, back then, Qualcomm also sued Meizu.
Things were making a fuss, and fans on both sides and even the official directly tore their faces.
What happened in the end?
After negotiation, the settlement ended, and Meizu used a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
Meizu 20, which is about to be released, isn't it also using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor?
The lawsuits between Nokia, Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung have never stopped.
Counting the length of a batch of cloth, most of them ended in reconciliation.
Apple then uses Samsung's screen, Qualcomm's baseband...
The telecommunications giants continue to cross each other's patents...
When the years are quiet, some disputes are settled before they can even be fought.
Back to this matter with Huawei and Xiaomi.
Before the lawsuit was fought, Xiaomi responded.
Xiaomi says:
The two parties are actively negotiating on patent licensing; The mainland's IP protection system provides a variety of resolution mechanisms, including administrative and judicial mediation. It is industry practice to resolve licensing issues through third-party mediation mechanisms, and both Huawei and Xiaomi believe that IP licensing and cooperation are conducive to promoting innovation and public interests, and that mediation is an effective channel to help achieve licensing. While continuing active negotiations, the two sides seek to use diversified mediation mechanisms to assist the parties in reaching an agreement.
This passage is basically the same as the example and expression mentioned earlier by Brother Ji.
The implication is that don't rush to move the stool to watch the play, we are still actively negotiating.
The degree of this and harmony is not even as good as the tearing face development meeting of Meizu Qualcomm.
In the opinion of the machine brother, everyone can relax that this wave of patent disputes between Huawei and Xiaomi will not be like overseas, where sales are banned and sky-high fines are imposed at every turn.
Judging from the previous examples, the vast majority of patent disputes, it is really not about fighting each other for life and death.
Instead, it takes an "excuse" to get everyone to sit down and talk about licensing fees.
As long as the money can be negotiated, the withdrawal of the lawsuit and the settlement of the agreement are a set of operations, it is a matter of minutes.
So, in fact, the whole thing looks like it is not as tense on the Internet.
Fans on both sides don't have to make up their brains and reverie too much.
Let's just let the bullets fly for a while~
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