Victor Group Is Deeply Involved In Litigation And Grants Patents To Its Competitors.

As the textile industry suffers, the victeco group, the famous industry in the industry, raises the banner of intellectual property protection and prosecute many textile enterprises.

For a while, many textile enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta are under the shadow of intellectual property lawsuit.

Some textile enterprises prosecuted have issued the voice of the Vico group, which is taking advantage of the downturn in the industry.

The case of intellectual property protection involves some blanket manufacturers.

At the critical moment of industrial pformation and upgrading, many enterprises have been trapped in the dilemma of survival and breakthrough.

Since January last year, Limited by Share Ltd, the Ningbo based VICCO holding group, has prosecuted some printing and dyeing companies in Jiangsu and Shanghai for the purpose of stopping infringement.

Among them, a textile enterprise in Changshu has been convicted of infringement by the Suzhou intermediate people's court.

On this basis, through patent authorization, the company has resumed the production of coral velvet blankets.

Another prosecuted Jiangsu enterprise has already reached a settlement agreement with Vico through the court's initiative, and agreed to stop the infringement immediately. If a similar incident occurs again, it will compensate 10 times the amount of infringement sales.

But at the end of October this year, a petition called "all enterprises in Changshu's textile industry" directly pointed to "malicious litigation" and "damage to the interests of the industry".

Yushan Town in Changshou City is home textile town, and it is the most widely affected area.

Vic, who has authorized the patent to win the lawsuit but lost the public opinion, is faced with a lot of blame. He had to publish the book on textile industry on his official website in November 4th. He stressed that Victor maintained the legitimate rights and interests of the patent through the proper way, and reiterated that the purpose of safeguarding rights is to establish a more standardized competition order, restore the competitive disadvantage of the international market, and jointly promote the upgrading of the textile industry as soon as possible.

Shi Mei Xin, general manager of Vico Limited by Share Ltd, general manager of VICCO Holdings Limited, said that China's textile industry is indeed experiencing a cold winter, but if it does not protect intellectual property rights and actively innovate, the market will be killed sooner or later.

On the premise of issuing this statement, Vico signed a patent authorization agreement with the relevant enterprises quickly to help relevant enterprises resume production under the premise that the relevant enterprises recognized the infringement and ensured the quality of the products.

The industry is hovering around the low price competition. Before that, Vico has experienced a similar "product innovation".

The result of that time is that almost all Chinese related products have been withdrawn from the international market.

As early as 10 years ago, Victor has independently developed "Raschel cotton blanket", which is popular in Japan and sold 1 million in the best year.

At that time, Victor took a "stupid" approach: first no patent application, but in the production workshop two posts, except for front-line workers, even if the company's management personnel, no one can enter.

Two years later, some Japanese customers began to lower prices.

After dark investigation, it was found that some enterprises were producing Raschel cotton blanket, but Vico could not do anything about it.

In order to reduce costs in order to carry out price war with counterfeit enterprises, Vico had to follow up, and reduced the product specifications, and the price dropped from the original 24 US dollars to 10 US dollars.

"Including Hubei, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as long as there are related production equipment companies are producing Raschel cotton blanket, this product has no profit."

After the Rachel cotton blankets were killed, spinning decided to develop new products.

Finally, a product called coral velvet blanket opened the market in Japan and the United States at the same time.

Drawing lessons from Raschel cotton blanket, Vico decided to apply for a product invention patent.

At the same time, Jin Bo, general manager of Limited by Share Ltd warp knitting company, who is involved in the development of the whole world, stipulates that from the equipment operator to the operator, the entry and exit workshop will be registered.

But after that, workers are being dug away by other enterprises.

In July 2006, the coral velvet blanket was finally granted 20 years of patent protection.

At this point, the product has spread abroad.

As early as the end of 2005, when Jin Bo talked about the next year's supply contract with his client in the US, he offered a 90% discount.

"I immediately realized that another company was copying our products, and there must be more than one.

Only a company counterfeit, the other customers can not ask for 10 percent off in one breath.

Jin Bo said.

Jin Bo believes that the internal destruction of related enterprises must be prevented from affecting the overall interests of Chinese enterprises in this field.

"But at that time, we did not think of litigation, but by administrative means to pressure the relevant enterprises, resulting in a waste of more than two years."

It was not until the client reminded him that Vic decided to appeal to the court.

But the printing and dyeing company, which was prosecuted by Vico, believes that coral corals and denim are public technologies, not Vico's unique research and development achievements.

In November 2nd, the company filed a request for patent invalidation with the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office, requesting the cancellation of the "coral pile" patent of VICCO.

People in the legal profession are holding up Victor as an influential industry case. Lawyer Ma Kan, an intellectual property Specialized Committee member of the Zhejiang Law Association, has been concerned about the progress of the case.

He believes that this is a landmark event in the process of pformation and upgrading of China's industry. On the other hand, it is also testing the wisdom of China's intellectual property protection.

"From the international point of view, the protection of intellectual property rights has increased with economic development."

Ma Kan believes that the wave of globalization has brought many unbalanced development countries to the same arena, and countries in different stages of development will have different strategies for patent protection.

On the positive side, the role of intellectual property system in the economic development of developed countries has been proved by historical experience. Intellectual property protection system can encourage individuals and enterprises to create and develop new knowledge and technology beneficial to society.

Specifically, in this case, because the court has approved the establishment of patent infringement of Vico, the functional departments and trade associations have the necessity, responsibility and obligation to make clear their stand for the dignity of the law and the health of the industry, and support Vic.

The business sector should investigate and punish infringements, protect patent rights, and promote trade price alliance, so as to truly protect the interests of the textile industry and national enterprises.

"We are still very good at copying our competitors." we only want to coordinate Chinese enterprises to bargain with each other through patent protection.

In any case, the order of coral fleece is always produced in domestic enterprises and will not go abroad. "

Shi Meixin said.

As a good faith, after winning the lawsuit, Vico gave up the compensation for the infringement of the relevant enterprises. Instead, it guaranteed the patent authorization of the relevant enterprises quickly with the guarantee of product quality and price.

However, this is only a temporary expediency under special circumstances.

The core assets of modern enterprises are intellectual property rights, and the protection of intellectual property rights is to protect the industry of innovation capability.

This is the life of every business.

In the view of Shi Mei Xin, the reason why Chinese manufacturing has been lingering at the low end is not that enterprises do not want to develop new products, but that they are unable to protect the research and development results obtained by developing risks, and the cost of developing the same products is much higher than that of the imitation enterprises, which leads to a vicious circle of "no research and development, such as death, research and search for death".

Yang Jing: editor in charge