ZTE wins 337 U.S. investigation

Yesterday, Beijing Commercial news reporter learned from ZTE, the United States International Trade Commission ITC on the United States Patent Operators (TPL) v. ZTE Patent infringement case to make a final decision, ZTE does not infringe the plaintiff TPL chip design technology patent, not violated 337 paragraph, so far, ZTE won the 337 U.S. investigation in the end. The final adjudication of the plaintiff TPL is a company engaged in chip technology research, in recent years into a patent operating company, mainly relying on patent licensing, litigation compensation to achieve revenue. In July 2012, TPL filed a survey of ZTE in ITC, including 12 companies such as Huawei, Samsung, HTC and LG. ZTE Global Intellectual property director Shen Jianfeng said the verdict is within the company's expectations. Under the situation of global communication market and the continuous change of intellectual property environment, enterprises will face more complex competition environment. ZTE will continue to uphold the principle of openness and mutual benefit, and cooperate with the industry enterprises in order to promote rational competition and healthy development of the industry. In recent years, with the internationalization of Chinese enterprises and growth, ZTE as the representative of the domestic High-tech enterprises gradually by the patent operators (NPE) Stare, there are many interdigital such a patent alligator. In July 2011, InterDigital, which owns 20,000 patents, accused ZTE, Huawei and Nokia of violating their patents, demanding that 337 investigations be launched and an exclusion order banned from the company's sales of 3G mobile devices in the United States. At the end of last year, ITC made a final ruling that three companies did not violate InterDigital's patent rights and did not violate the 337 clause. It is reported that these NPE more in the name of patent licensing, demanding high royalties. If the enterprise refuses to submit, it is very prone to initiate lawsuits and 337 investigations with patent weapons. Among them, 337 survey with short cycle, the process of complex, the risk of a great reputation, in recent years is focused on China and other developing countries enterprises. Once the defendant is convicted of a violation of section 337, ITC will issue an exclusion order and a restraining order for the product, which is likely to be completely insulated from the U.S. market.