Millet for the patent Troubles and joint core technology team together

Millet is seeking to expand overseas, although its global vice-president, Hugo Barra, has avoided some markets by not acknowledging the potential patent litigation risks, but millet is conspiring to co-operate on patent reserves. Tencent technology from people familiar with the situation, in order to circumvent the overseas expansion in the face of patent lawsuits, Millet is plotting with domestic mobile phone chip business with the core technology cooperation, the two sides will jointly fund the establishment of a new company, specialized in cell phone chip core technology research and development and application. It is understood that millet in the communications core patent reserves almost zero, there are some of the design of secondary patents, and once overseas expansion, the company does not have enough intellectual property rights and other smart machine manufacturers to reach a patent cross licensing agreement. To set up a joint venture company according to people familiar with the matter, millet and the core began a few months ago contact, Millet company founder and CEO Lei (micro-bo) and Li Vanchang (micro-BO) and other senior executives met the core technology president Changuoliang, and reached a certain cooperation intention. Since then, Lei and Datang Telecom (Core technology parent company) group chairman really Caiki exchange of views on cooperation, and finally reached agreement. At present, the two sides have entered the final negotiation period, will eventually determine the amount of investment, shareholding ratio and staff arrangements. Close to the negotiations insiders to Tencent technology revealed that the millet company will hold 51%, Core technology Holdings 49%. However, Tencent technology to the core technology related to the owner of the verification did not get a clear answer. As an important part of China's mobile phone chip market, the core technology is headquartered in Shanghai, Datang Telecom Technology industry group in the Integrated circuit design section of the core enterprises, specializing in 2G/3G/4G Mobile Internet terminal Core technology research and application, providing 3G/4G mobile terminal chip and solutions. It and Datang microelectronics and other companies constitute the unified operation of Datang Semiconductor platform, the platform to chip design as the core, around the intelligent terminal chip, security chips, automotive electronic chips and other fields to launch business. This is not millet company and the first contact with the core technology, as early as the second half of 2013 Millet launched the red-meter mobile phone, it has been used in the core technology provided by the chip, but because of the cycle and other factors finally did not go public. In addition to this strategic level of cooperation, based on the core technology LC1860 Red M LTE 4G mobile phone will soon be available, but the initial still is three models, five modules need to be commercially available next year. said the person. Millet patent of the war in recent years, the development of millet has been downwind, the relevant agencies published in August in the second quarter of the statistics, millet promoted to China's largest mobile phone manufacturers, overseas targets are aimed at India, Brazil and other BRIC countries, and High-profile announced next year to sell 100 million mobile phones target. However, the foreign mature market to patent intellectual property rights more than the domestic high, in the domestic marketing model to leap into the red millet, only this leg is clearly difficult to foothold overseas. Apple design director recently in the "Vanity Fair" new summit, the millet and other companies for reference behavior openly expressed dissatisfaction: this is not a tribute, this is plagiarism. Although Millet has not yet enteredImportant smartphone markets in North America and Europe, but the foreign giants, which have never been stingy with the patent sticks, will not allow companies like millet to misbehave, and Apple is a stern warning. At present, the millet market, like the domestic market, its patent intellectual property rights are relatively weak, followed mainly by Qualcomm's patent antitrust in the play an important protective role. Earlier, Tencent Science and technology in the exclusive exposure of Qualcomm antitrust case is about to close the article, the most immediate industry impact will be the cancellation of Qualcomm's patent antitrust, which will benefit from a deep patent pool, while emerging brands such as millet hammers or the lack of basic communications patents are adding to the costs and are facing ongoing patent lawsuits. The latest internal news from Tencent's science and technology show that Qualcomm's antitrust patent case is about to be closed, and the cancellation of its patent anti-authorization has been basically guaranteed. From this level, Millet is aware of their future patent short Board, the union core technology is to advance defense. According to the above people to Tencent technology, millet mobile phone shipments are relatively large, core technology to enhance the chip size, thereby promoting market share, with the exhibition, MTK confrontation, and Millet is for the patent reserve, once Qualcomm closed the case without a patent anti-authorization protection, such as millet, such as the Internet mobile phone brands will face a succession of patent lawsuits, such as the Chinese Cool Alliance and other traditional mobile phone operators obviously will not let go of such opportunities. According to the State Intellectual Property Office statistics show that the number of inventions in the licensing, millet only 10. If compared with Apple, the quantity is 48 times times; if compared with domestic traditional handset manufacturers, occupy the majority of the patent share of the Chinese cool is a hundredfold, especially ZTE Huawei more than thousand. 2013, Huawei's patent number of 71903, the cumulative application for 44,168 Chinese patents, its invention patent authorization has been ranked first in the world for 7 consecutive years, and millet total only 1141. But in the patent category, the invention patent is far more than the utility model, the appearance design audit cycle is long, the application difficulty is big, the technical content is high. In the same competition, the invention patent's lethality or defensive ability is also strong. Some analysts believe that in domestic mobile phone manufacturers, such as millet, such as the Internet mobile phone has a lot, due to the establishment of a shorter time, millet Company's patent reserves are relatively small. Once a patent lawsuit arrives, it is almost impossible to parry. and patent reserves need to continue, a large amount of money into research and development, short-term to millet is still fair, but in the long run will not make ends meet. So millet is facing a deep pool of patent infringement in the global market. In addition to preparing new products, Li Vanchang, founder and vice president of Millet technology, which has just left for Silicon Valley, has the most important task of understanding the North American market's patent rules and looking for cooperation. Millet This move can clear the future development of the patent barrier is still unknown, after all, this is not a sprint project, you bite the teeth sprint can have the opportunity to win;