China E-ventions
Patent News from the Middle Kingdom
Vol. 3 , No. 8 - July 16, 2003
TOPICS THIS ISSUE:
- Patented Super-7 Fighter Ready for First Flight
- China to Manufacture Feeder Planes
- Philips Electronics being Sued
- Philips Electronics is Suing the State Intellectual Property Office of China
- China Develops High-End Optical Fiber
- China and India to Co-Ordinate Trade Policy
- LG Sues for Alleged Patent Infringement
Patented Super-7 Fighter Ready for First Flight
Chao Qi, China's new generation fighter and the first of its kind developed and patented in China, has now entered its testing phase.
On July 2, Chao Qi completed its taxiing test at Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Corporation (CAC). The taxiing test involved Chao Qi taxiing along the runway for some 700 meters at a speed of 30km per hour. Then it continued for another 300 meters after a successful turn.
As one of the eight major tests that must be completed on the ground before a test flight can be mage, the taxiing test is aimed at access the planes electricity supply system, as well as the signal connections between the electricity supply system and other external systems.
The first test flight is scheduled to take place at the end of this month.
(Source: People's Daily)
China to Manufacture Feeder Planes
A new entirely Chinese designed aircraft, the ARJ-21, will be put into service for feeder flights in 2007.
The design of the body structure and the undercarriage system has been settled and the manufacture of components will begin before the end of this year, said Liu Gaozhuo, general manager of the No.1 Group of China Airline Industry.
First launched in October 2000, the project was listed in the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) in 2001. Since then, research and preparation for the new turbofan aircraft has been carried out smoothly.
To quicken the design and manufacture process of the plane, the former Xi'an Aircraft Design Research Institute and the Shanghai Plane Design Research Institute were merged to create a new design institute, the No.1 Aircraft Research Institute under the No.1 Group of China Airline Industry.
According to design, the new plane will come in two models, seating 78 to 85 passengers and flying 2,225 kilometers and 3,700 kilometers respectively.
All the power equipment, undercarriage and body material will be ordered through bidding on the world market.
(Source: Xinhua Economic News Service)
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Philips Electronics being Sued
Royal Philips Electronics is being sued for more than RMB 15 million (US$1.8 million) by a Shanghai lamp maker, claiming infringement on its patent for energy-saving lamps.
Philips Electronics China Group, a subsidiary of Europe's largest consumer-electronics maker, said it had provided evidence to the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) to invalidate the patent and is prepared to fight the claim.
The suit was originally filed in the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court in August last year by the privately owned Shanghai Dais Electric Co.
In the suit, Shanghai Dais states that Philips & Yaming Lighting Co Ltd used its utility model patent illegally from 1995 to 2000. Philips & Yaming is a joint venture of Philips China, which has a 60 percent stake in the firm.
"Statistics collected from the Customs show that Philips exported about 50 million bulbs using my patent. The sales figure in the domestic market may be much bigger," said Dai Peijun, general manager of Dais.
"My patent has been widely infringed by domestic bulb makers, and Philips is among the three firms that I have brought suits against," he added, declining to identify the other two.
A Philips China official said Dai's patent had already been widely used in producing energy-saving bulbs before his 1993 registration.
"We have collected enough evidence for the court to prove it," the Philips official said.
Dai said the patent expires in May 2003 but the infringement and charge occurred during the effective period of the patent.
Since China joined the World Trade Organization more domestic companies have been going to court to seek damages. It's the second dispute between Philips and a domestic energy-saving bulb maker.
(Source: Shanghai Daily)
Philips Electronics is Suing the State Intellectual Property Office of China
In June of this year, Royal Philips Electronics filed suit against the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China. The lawsuit is in relation to a rejected patent application.
The Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court who is hearing the case has made no decision to date.
The accused rejected the patent application in 1999. The patent re-examination committee also rejected patent application on re-examination of the application last year.
(Source: China Daily (HK edition))
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China Develops High-End Optical Fiber
Chinese scientists have developed a new-generation high-end optical fiber which is believed will become the mainstream fiber for the third generation optical fiber communications system.
Zhu Zhaozhang, general manager of the Shanghai-based ZhongTian Technologies Fiber Optics Co., said the first batch of the optical fiber with its own patented rights had passed quality tests conducted by the quality control center under the Ministry of Information Industry.
Mass production of the fiber, known as non-dispersion single mode optical fiber, has begun at the company's production base in Nantong City of Jiangsu Province, said the general manager.
Professor Lu Guoliang, a renowned optical fiber expert, said the amount of optical fiber used in China was expected to reach 2.5 million kilometers in the 2001-2005 period, with 500,000 km of it for the country's long-distance trunk lines.
(Source: Xinhuanet)
China and India to Co-Ordinate Trade Policy
India and China have agreed to co-ordinate their positions on a range of issues in the World Trade Organisation, their first move to work together on global trade policy, India's commerce minister said yesterday.
The issues on which they aim to co-operate concerns efforts to ensure that WTO rules on intellectual property protection do not prevent the compulsory licensing of imports of medicines by poor countries.
The US is blocking a draft WTO deal because of opposition from its pharmaceutical industry. It fears the deal would enable generic drug producers in India, Brazil, China and South Africa to undermine its patents and flood the world market with cheap medicines. Mr. Jaitley said the issue must be resolved before the WTO's ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico, in September.
(Source: Financial Times (London))
LG Sues for Alleged Patent Infringement
South Korean electrical appliance company LG has launched legal action against Guangdong-based Galanz for alleged patent infringement in its microwave ovens.
No decision was made on July 10 in its first hearing at the Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court. As the world's leading microwave oven manufacturer, Galanz has 40% of the market share worldwide and 50% of the Chinese market, according to company sources. LG, which has a newly established production line in Tianjin, has posed a strong challenge to Galanz.
Tianjin LG Electronics has demanded RMB1.5 million (US $ 181,000) compensation from Galanz for alleged infringement in the "automatic cooking equipment" of its four types of ovens.
(Source: Business Daily Update)
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