"Barefoot" sooner or later must have a "shoe" intellectual property dispute intensified

My friend gave me two tickets for the film, said: "we can see the" Kung Fu "and" A World Without Thieves ", with the idol of Stephen Chow's guilt, I did not hesitate to choose a" A World Without Thieves ", for the second day in the" Kung Fu "release, I have seen the piracy. Once a friend said that he used the computer, from the company to the Internet, and then home, almost all software piracy, the annual new movies he a not down, see piracy, even wear clothes, looks are famous, in fact, is not so positive cases. In fact, piracy is everywhere in our daily life, even though we all know that we need to maintain genuine, to combat piracy, but it is still a natural use of pirated.

This commonplace piracy, in fact, is ubiquitous infringement of intellectual property rights, in a professional language is improper use of other people's knowledge".

In early 2005, the improper use of other people's knowledge of the outcome of the ensuing several lawsuits intensified, intellectual property protection once again sounded the alarm. If at the beginning of 2003, CISCO v. HUAWEI and HUAWEI Inc. is a prelude of intellectual property disputes, then after two years of accumulation, which followed a series of lawsuits can be seen as the official start of Chinese and foreign intellectual property disputes.

In January 5th, the United States MP3 control chip manufacturer SigmaTel, Chinese accused Zhuhai actions violated its number for MP3 player chip patent; January 20th, Intel sued the Shenzhen East for patent infringement, $7 million 960 thousand; in January 24th, Italian company SISVEL v. MP3 enterprise Chinese infringement, part of the goods have been detained in Italy, with 24 German customs; BenQ (China), 24 Guardian Industries Inc panel factory by the United States accused of infringing its patent right called LCD screen; not long before, and Hitachi in the United States sued the south ring storage Huitong micro hard disk of patent infringement.

We may, in accordance with the inertia of thinking, "appropriate" use a little knowledge, may be just as in school students to copy homework, he was criticized by the teacher for a meal, or by parents training meal. However, the same is appropriate plagiarism, the results are different. Intel v. East infringement claims amounting to $7 million 960 thousand, equivalent to the total assets of the company, if lost, is likely to face ruin. SISVEL Italian company from the second half of last year to China's MP3 production companies charge $2 per patent fee, while China's current export MP3 gross profit of only $2-3 / Taiwan, almost no profit at all. The result is obviously not "just" so easy.

According to incomplete statistics, in the two years after the accession to the world trade organization, China's foreign intellectual property disputes occurred more than more than and 20. In 2003-2004, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) received a total number of patent infringement lawsuits against Chinese companies more than the sum of Japan and South korea. During the year 2004, there were 11 patents for Chinese companies or products. Many enterprises have to spend a lot of energy to deal with these disputes. Moreover, there are indications that the high-tech enterprises in the process of globalization, intellectual property disputes will be intensified.

By the end of 2004, the Supreme People's court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued a judicial interpretation to reassert the strict protection of intellectual property rights, intellectual property rights to increase the punishment to crime, which is China after adding WTO to the international community must have, but also the inner need of long-term development of Chinese economy.

China's accession to the WOT, but also in the integration of an international order, and the premise of this integration is to recognize and abide by the existing order. There is an analogy that if the international order is regarded as a road, not only is the order to wear shoes on the road to walk on, to our current "barefoot" situation, to successfully embark on this road, also have to put on my shoes. WTO on the commitment of the international community has put forward a serious challenge to the "barefoot", "shoes" must be integrated into the international community requirements, although the "barefoot" wear "shoes" may start is not smooth, there may even be "cutting the feet" pain.