Netac to the United States to play the first case of intellectual property rights IT

Newspaper news (reporter Li Bingxin) in the foreign intellectual property barriers before repeatedly suffer China IT enterprises, the first attempt to wield the same patent stick in the United states. Shenzhen Netac Co announced the day before yesterday in the United States formally filed a lawsuit to the court of the United States PNY infringement of its patents, requiring huge compensation. PNY is one of the leading companies in the U.S. computer storage market.

According to reports, the prosecution has been formally proposed in the United States time on February 10, 2006. PNY is a leading enterprise in the United States computer store retail market, Netac in the complaint accusing PNY of infringing its patent No. US6829672 flash based patent, PNY company to stop the infringement, and thus compensation for the economic losses caused by Netac. Although Netac yesterday did not disclose the specific amount of claims, but Netac President Deng Guoshun revealed that the case is likely to be the highest amount of claims so far in the field of flash compensation. "Due to the infringement of PNY and other companies, we have suffered huge losses in the United States, the market share has been greatly suppressed, the prosecution is to protect the fair opportunity." Deng Guoshun stressed that the main purpose of the prosecution PNY is not economic benefits, but look forward to the opportunity to get fair competition".

In 1999, the Netac Co to take the lead in developing a new generation of mobile memory, flash disk, USB (named "flash" is a registered trademark of Netac), authorized and the State Intellectual Property Office in July 2002; in December 2004, the Netac Co in the United States authorized the technology of the invention patent, the patent is flash, flash MP3 flash and other mobile digital products on the basis of the patent.

In the patent, Netac has been the Aigo, Acer, SONY and other companies to court, in addition to Acer has reached a settlement with Netac, the remaining few still in the process of litigation. Netac sued PNY for the domestic market has been affected by the problems, Huaqi vice president of information news that China and Hou, two US national law is different, the definition of patent right is different, two cases are not comparable, Netac sued the company will not have any impact on china.