Why a Chinese company’s patent victory is a sign of things to come
14 October 2011
Peter Ollier, Hong Kong
Consumer electronics company Aigo has won a patent infringement decision against Japanese rival Toshiba in a case that shows the increasing assertiveness of Chinese companies in their own courts
A Chinese court in the city of Xi’an ordered Toshiba China to stop selling some of its notebook computers and pay Rmb200,000 ($31,300) in damages.
"The case represents an important turning point from ‘made in China’ to ‘created in China,’" said Huang Jing, head of the IP department at Aigo.
Aigo – full name Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology – sued Toshiba and US IT corporation Hewlett Packard in April last year, claiming that their products infringed its patents on USB port storage technology. Aigo...
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