Faced with the provocation of foreign competitors, repeated defeats
Perhaps it is precisely because of the rapid development of China Semiconductor's semiconductor equipment field, it also attracted intellectual property litigation provoked by foreign competitors.
The first thing that happened was Yin Zhisheng’s old club, American Applied Materials. In 2007, Applied Materials filed a lawsuit against Zhongwei Semiconductor, but it always proved weak (Yin Zhiyi and his team members did not take away when leaving the United States. Any process formula, design drawings, and subsequent product design also avoided the other party's patents. China Micro-Semiconductor seized the opportunity to counter the unfair competition of the other party in a timely manner. The Applied Materials Company apparently had insufficient preparations for this situation and eventually had to withdraw its appeal. with.
In 2009, another giant, Colin R&D, sued China and China for infringing its invention patents in China. Zhongwei Semiconductor actively responded and provided evidence of invalid patents. In the two trials of the court, Colin’s related patents were all judged. Invalid, the third Taiwan "Intellectual Property Bureau" even approved the revocation of one of Colin's patent rights, and then Colin filed an administrative lawsuit against the "Intellectual Property Bureau", which was again rejected.
In 2016, in an interview with the media, Zhongwei Semiconductor also detailed its successful experience in dealing with the US industry giant's five-year infringement of trade secrets and patent rights, and finally won the “four-game winning streak”.
At that time, Jiang Yinxin, senior intellectual property director of China Micro-Semiconductor Co., Ltd. said, “Zhongwei is very cautious in intellectual property rights. In the early days of the company’s establishment, a special intellectual property team was set up to prepare for the potential intellectual property disputes. The analysis of the analysis. Before some of the core members of the returnee R&D team returned to China, China Micro has already signed a letter of commitment to not bring technical secrets from the original unit.
In early November 2017, Veeco, a US MOCVD (Metal Organic Compound Vapor Deposition Equipment) facility, announced that the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York had agreed to a preliminary injunction against SGL Carbon, LLC (SGL), prohibiting SGL from selling Veeco's patented technology. The wafer carrier used for MOCVD (ie, graphite disk) includes a graphite disk designed specifically for China's MOCVD equipment manufacturer. Veeco's move is aimed at Zhongwei Semiconductor.
In this regard, on the one hand, Zhongwei Semiconductor actively develops suppliers of the second and third channels; on the other hand, it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Veeco in China.
Micro-Semiconductor disclosed that it officially sued Veeco Shanghai in July 2017 for the Fujian High Court, accusing its TurboDisk EPIK 700 model of MOCVD equipment infringing on the Chinese patent of Zhongwei's substrate tray synchronization, requiring it to stop infringement and claim 100 million yuan infringement damages. After the infringement of the micro-semiconductor, Veeco Shanghai filed an invalidation request for the patent of the micro-semiconductor to the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office (the “Patent Reexamination Board”).
On November 24 of the same year, the Patent Reexamination Board made a review decision and rejected Veeco Shanghai's application for invalidation of the micro-semiconductor patent, confirming that the patents infringed by Veeco's Shanghai patent infringement were valid patents.
On December 8, 2017, the Higher People's Court of Fujian Province agreed to the application for a ban on Veeco Shanghai by Weiwei Semiconductor, which prohibits Veeco from importing, manufacturing, selling to any third party or selling the patent infringing the patent of CN200492576. Any chemical vapor deposition apparatus and substrate tray for such equipment. The ban is effective immediately and cannot be appealed.
Zhongwei Semiconductor's victory over Veeco Shanghai successfully defeated Veeco's attempt to crack down on Micro-Semiconductors through patent warfare.
“Zhongwei has been legally sued by US equipment companies in the past 11 years, but we have been invincible because of our strong intellectual property defense and full compliance with US and national intellectual property laws.” In July this year, Yin Zhiwei I said this when I was interviewed by the Observer Network.
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In the face of the provocation of foreign competitors, behind the repeated wins, it is China Unicom's long-standing independent technology patents obtained by independent research and development.
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