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Experts remind that foreign large-scale automobile companies have started to collect evidence of infringement of domestic enterprises and are ready to “make it difficultâ€.
Reporter Liu Hong and Correspondent Sui Zhixuan reported: “The goods are marked with a patent number, but also have a patent certificate?†Yesterday, the reporter checked the auto parts market in the city with the Guangzhou IPR enforcement team and found that auto parts There are a lot of "blind intellectual property rights" among operators. Experts have reminded this: foreign auto companies have applied for a large number of patents in China to collect evidence that domestic companies infringe their patent rights. If they do not raise awareness of intellectual property rights, domestic auto parts companies will not fight back once the “patent war†is launched.
Auto parts products, patented chaos
For two days in a row, law enforcement officers from the Guangzhou Municipal Intellectual Property Office, the Municipal Intellectual Property Inspection Team, and various districts divided into three roads to carry out patent product inspection and law enforcement publicity in 21 auto parts markets in Guangzhou. Only yesterday, the law enforcement team checked nearly 200,000 items in 1800 stalls in 16 markets.
Yesterday morning, in Guangzhou, Yiyun Square, which specializes in auto parts, inspectors randomly selected various auto parts products and found many problems. Some auto parts products are marked with the words “This product has applied for patentsâ€, “patent products, counterfeiting†and the like. The most critical patent numbers have not been indicated; some products have no problem with the number of patents they sign. However, the owner did not have the patent certificate that could prove the authenticity of the patent number; other products indicated the words “has applied for a patent in the United States†and the inspectors pointed out that the patent application and protection were territorial and did not apply for a patent in China. Is not protected by our country's intellectual property law.
According to the relevant regulations of the country, listed products must be marked in Chinese, and imported products are no exception. Many auto parts products can be in vitro texts, making it impossible to tell the authenticity of “imported productsâ€. All the products sold at a stall are marked in English. Inspected by the inspectors, the stall owner argues that the factory is located in Huadu and the products are mainly exported in full English. Law enforcement officers immediately corrected and alerted them.
The reporter found that many stall owners do not understand intellectual property rights, and some attitudes are rather indifferent. In order to expand the publicity of intellectual property rights, law enforcement officers specially sent out some intellectual property promotion cards to various stalls, and some inspectors, such as stalls, tossed the cards into garbage bins.
Collect evidence, foreign companies want to fight "patent warfare"
Why should we focus on checking the patent problems in the auto parts market? Relevant person in charge explained that the current domestic auto parts industry is a mixed bag, which has both the phenomenon of manufacturing and selling counterfeit and shoddy products, and also faces the threat of large multinational companies' patent warfare. It is understood that foreign large-scale automobile companies have applied for a large number of patents in China, and have begun to gradually collect evidence of domestic companies infringing their patent rights, and they have not shown a tendency to be cited, and they are ready to launch problems when the time is ripe.
Automobiles have become one of the pillar industries in Guangzhou. Honda, Nissan, and Toyota, the three major international automobile manufacturing companies, have settled in Guangzhou. The development pattern of automobile industry clusters has basically taken shape, which has led to the development of auto parts industry. At present, the city's main and å…¼è¥ production of automotive parts and components has more than 200 companies, into a scale of professional auto parts market and professional street has reached 27, the annual turnover of nearly 10 billion yuan. If they do not raise awareness of patent protection as soon as possible, some companies will face the competitor's long-standing patent infringement litigation.
Repeated action, special investigation of infringing products
According to reports, since September this year, the Municipal Office of Regulation and Regulations has organized patent, industry and commerce, quality supervision and other functional departments to carry out special rectification actions against counterfeit and shoddy products, protection of intellectual property rights, and maintenance of market economic order in the Guangzhou auto parts industry. Trade marks, counterfeit brands, “three nos†(bad quality) products and patent infringement products were the main targets. At present, the first phase of the rectification work has achieved results. Yesterday’s actions marked the formal commencement of the second phase of the IPR protection of the auto parts industry in Guangzhou.