【中英】​高松电子赢得与德国WAGO专利侵权诉讼

　　近日，广州知识产权法院下发（2021）粤73民初891号之一民事裁定书，准许原告德国WAGO（万可）公司撤诉。此前，WAGO公司曾将宁波高松电子有限公司、广州市得格松电子有限公司、宁波高正电子有限公司诉至广州知识产权法院，状告三者侵权其ZL201811220969.4号“连接夹具”专利。

　　Recently, Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court issued a civil ruling No. (2021)粤73民初891号, granted the plaintiff, a German company named WAGO to dismiss the lawsuit. Previously. WAGO has previously filed a complaint against Ningbo Degson Electrical Co., Ltd., Guangzhou DEGESONG Electrical Co., Ltd., and Ningbo Degson Electronics Co., Ltd. (宁波高正电子有限公司) at the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court, allegating the three entities of infringement of its ZL201811220969.4 patent entitled "Connecting Fixture".

　　宁波高松电子有限公司在被诉后委托北京三聚阳光知识产权服务集团有限公司旗下的北京三聚阳光知识产权代理有限公司和北京易聚律师事务所对WAGO公司这一专利发起专利无效宣告。经过无效审理，国家知识产权局作出第56038号专利无效宣告决定，宣告WAGO公司拥有的ZL201811220969.4号“连接夹具”专利全部无效。随着专利的宣告无效，高松电子成功化解了侵权诉讼。

　　After being sued, Ningbo Degson entrusted the associated institutions of Sunshine Intellectual Property Group, Sunshine Intellectual Property International Co., Ltd. and Beijing Yiju Law Firm to request for invalidation of the patent of the WAGO company. After examination of the invalidation request, the China National Intellectural Property Administration (CNIPA) made an invalidation decision No. 56038 on the patent, declaring all the claims of the patent ZL201811220969.4 entitled "Connecting fixture" owned by WAGO Company invalid. With the patent being declared invalid, Degson Electronics successfully defended its infringement litigation.

　　据第56038号无效决定书显示，国家知识产权局的决定要点为“如果本领域的技术人员根据原申请文件结合本专利申请日前所属技术领域所有的普通技术知识无法直接地、毫无疑义地确定分案申请权利要求的技术方案，则该分案申请权利要求的技术方案超出原申请记载的范围，不符合专利法实施细则第43条第1款的规定”。而本专利的权利要求1及间接引用权利要求1的权利要求2-11均符合以上情形，所以该专利最终被宣告全部无效。

　　According to the No. 56038 Examination Decision of Request for Invalidation, the main points of the decision lies in that ”if a person of ordinary skill in the art fails to identify, directly and undoubtedly, the technical scheme of the claims of the divisional application by combination of the initial application and all the common technical knowledge in the art prior to the filing date of the patent, the technical scheme claimed in the divisional application shall go beyond the scope of disclosure contained in the initial application and is not in conformity with the provision of Rule 43 (1) of the Implementation Regulations of the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China”. The Claim 1 of this patent and the claims 2-11 which indirectly refer to the claim 1 are all in conformity with the above circumstances, therefore all the claims of the patent were finally declared invalid.

　　德国WAGO（万可）公司成立于1951年，在全球有超过8500名的员工，是电气连接领域的国际知名企业集团，其在中国已公开和授权专利超过500件。

　　WAGO, a German company, founded in 1951, has more than 8500 employees worldwide and is an internationally renowned enterprise group in the field of electrical connection. More than 500 of its patents have been published and granted in China.

　　宁波高松电子有限公司创建于1990年，是全球知名的工业连接整体解决方案提供商，是亚洲首家拥有美国UL和德国VDE认可专业实验室的企业。高松电子拥有行业领先的连接技术、模具设计与制造能力、自动化装备制造能力，拥有先进的检测仪器和专业检测技术，强大的产品定制化能力，其产品畅销中国、美国、德国、英国、意大利、西班牙、日本、韩国、新加坡等100 多个国家和地区，为全球工业自动化、仪器仪表、电力电气、轨道交通、船舶、新能源、电梯、照明、安防、机械等行业，提供高品质产品和专业服务，获得了众多世界500强和行业龙头企业的认可。

　　Ningbo Degson Electrical Co., Ltd., founded in 1990, and is a globally renowned supplier of integrated solution for industrial connection, and the first enterprise in Asia with a professional laboratory accredited by the United States UL and the Germany VDE. Degson Electrical ranks industry-leading in connection technology, mould design and manufacturing, automation equipment manufacturing, and is equipped with advanced detecting equipment and professional detecting technology, proficient in customization products, its products are best-selling in more than 100 countries and regions such as China, the United States, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. It provides high-quality products and professional services for the global industries such as industrial automation, instrumentation, electric power, transportation, shipping, new energy, elevator, lighting, security and machinery. It has been recognized by many Fortune Global 500 and industry-leading enterprises.

　　宁波高松电子有限公司一直致力于技术与产品的创新创造，严格遵守国内外知识产权相关法律法规，拥有近200余项公开和授权的专利，尽管数量上不及德国WAGO公司，但其面临来自国际知名公司的专利侵权诉讼并未退缩，通过积极应诉和专利无效宣告维护自身权益并最终取得了胜利。同时委托欧洲知名律所充分评估和排除此专利母案海外知识产权风险，为全球客户的正常经营提供有力保障。

　　Degson ElectrIcal has been committed to technology and product innovation and creativity. It strictly complies with laws and regulations relating to Intellectual Property. It owns more than 200 published and granted patents. Although the number of patents is less than WAGO, they were not scared from the patent infringement litigations. They protected their rights and interests by affirmative defense and request for patent invalidation and finally won the case. At the same time, they also entrusted a well-known European law firm to fully assess and exclude the international Intellectual Property risks of the initial patent, so as to provide strong guarantee for the normal marketing and sales for global clients.

　　北京易聚律师事务所拥有 30 余位专职知识产权律师和专利诉讼代理人，已累计处理 2000 余件专利无效宣告、侵权诉讼、行政诉讼侵权、商标诉讼等各类诉讼案件，包括石药集团左旋氨氯地平专利纠纷、格力电器与奥克斯专利无效案、摩拜单车专利无效案、港珠澳大桥专利无效案、腾讯“微视”商标行政诉讼、中山云腾商标侵权诉讼，利勃海尔商标行政诉讼、周口“长寿山”商标行政诉讼、奥运大脚印发射装置相关专利发明人资格纠纷、乐尔专利权属纠纷、三聚环保不正当竞争诉讼、美国CBI商业秘密诉讼等众多具有社会影响的案件。其中摩拜公司专利纠纷入选“2017年北京市专利行政保护十大典型案例”及“2017年专利复审委员会复审无效十大案例”，金源茂丰专利纠纷入选“2017年北京市专利行政保护十大典型案例”及国家知识产权局“2017年度打击专利侵权假冒十大典型案例”，乐尔科技专利纠纷入选《最高人民法院知识产权法庭典型案例》，爱佩仪与华为“液态防抖镜头”专利无效案及“丁苯酞环糊精或环糊精衍生物包合物及其制备方法和用途”专利无效案共同入选国家知识产权局“2020年度专利复审无效十大案件”，“左心耳封堵器”专利无效案入选国家知识产权局“2021年度专利复审无效十大案件”等。北京易聚律师事务所针对每一专利纠纷诉讼案件均会成立包含法律专家、技术专家、资深专利代理师、资深律师在内的专家组，对案件进行全方位的分析处理，这也是北京易聚律师事务所诉讼和无效团队一以贯之的专业服务风格。

　　Beijing Yiju Law Firm has more than 30 full-time Intellectual Property lawyers and patent litigation attorneys, and conducted more than 2,000 cases of patent invalidation, infringement litigations, administrative proceedings, trademark litigations and other kinds of litigations, including many cases with public impact such as China Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group (CSPC)’s levoamlodipine patent dispute, GREE Electric Appliances’ request for patent invalidation against AUX, Mobike’s request for patent invalidation, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao (HZM)Bridge request for patent invalidation, Tencent’s "WeSee" trademark administrative proceeding, Zhongshan Yunteng’s trademark infringement litigation, Liebherr’s trademark administrative proceeding, Zhoukou " the Longevity Hill (长寿山) " trademark administrative proceeding, qualification dispute over the patent inventor of Olympic Big Footprint launcher, LR&RL’s patent ownership dispute, Sanju environmental protection’s unfair competition litigation, the United States CBI’s trade secret infringement litigation. Among which, Mobike's patent infringement dispute was selected as the "Top ten typical cases of patent administrative protection Beijing 2017" and the "Top ten cases of requests for patent reexamination and invalidation before the Patent Reexamination Board 2017". Jinyuan Maofeng’s patent dispute was selected as the "Top ten typical cases of patent administrative protection Beijing 2017" , and the "Top ten typical cases of cracking down on acts of patent infringement and passing off a patent 2017" by the China National Intellectual Property Administration, LR&RL Technology’s patent dispute was selected as the "Typical cases of the Intellectual Property tribunal of the Supreme People's Court", API and Huawei’s requests for patent invalidation of "Liquid anti-shake lens" and "Butylphthalide cyclodextrin or cyclodextrin derivative inclusion complex, preparation method and application thereof" were jointly selected as the "Top ten cases of requests for patent reexamination and invalidation 2020 " by the China National Intellectual Property Administration, The request for patent invalidation of "left atrial appendage occlusive device" was selected as the "Top ten cases of requests for patent reexamination and invalidation 2021" by the China National Intellectual Property Administration. Beijing Yiju Law Firm will set up an expert group including legal experts, technical experts, senior patent attorneys and senior lawyers for each patent dispute represented and conduct a comprehensive analysis and handling of the case, which is also a consistent manner of providing professional service by Beijing Yiju Law Firm litigation and request for invalidation team.