欧专局400万件专利申请量达成；日本《噬神者》团队新作被指抄袭官方道歉；福特加入Avanci专利池
编辑制作：China IP 国际部
录音：孙逸涵
Overview
一周概览
Focus
1. USPTO terminated Rospatent as an ISA and IPEA for international applications
美国专利商标局终止俄专局作为专利国际申请审查ISA和IPEA的合作
2. 'Fun and Tasty'—McDonald's choices of possible brand names for its Russian successor
“趣美味”——麦当劳为其在俄特许经营商选择多个品牌名
3. JPO announced latest Plan for AI 2022-2026
日本专利局最新人工智能（AI）行动计划（2022-2026）公布
4. Patent applications published by the EPO exceed four million as L'oréal filed EP 4 000 000
欧莱雅递交EP4000000专利——欧专局400万件专利申请量达成
IP Practice
5. Official apology: God Eater Team’s new work Project Shaz was charged with plagiarism
日本《噬神者》团队新作被指抄袭 官方道歉
6. Meta Platforms was accused of patent infringement in AR/VR by Immersion
Immersion公司起诉Meta Platforms侵犯其AR/VR专利权
7. Ford joins Avanci patent pool
福特加入Avanci专利池
8. Pfizer pharma patent was canceled by the Rospatent
俄专局撤销辉瑞公司药品专利
9. Eigencomm withdrew its counterclaimed against ASR
上海移芯通信撤回对翱捷科技反诉
10. Jointown and Goaland secure multi-mln financing with IP assets
九州通和高澜获数千万元知识产权质押贷款
Case Analysis
11. 典型案例——中兴通讯与康文森标准必要专利许可纠纷案
Focus
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USPTO terminated Rospatent as an ISA and IPEA for international applications
美国专利商标局终止俄专局作为专利国际申请审查ISA和IPEA的合作
On June 1, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) notified Rospatent of the USPTO’s intent to terminate their agreement concerning Rospatent functioning as an International Searching Authority (ISA) and International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) for international applications received by the USPTO as a Receiving Office under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Per the terms of the agreement, the termination will be effective December 1, 2022. In the interim, applicants filing international applications under the PCT are advised to exercise caution before selecting Rospatent as an ISA or IPEA.
6月1日，美国专利商标局（USPTO）通知Rospatent，USPTO打算终止Rospatent作为国际检索机构（ISA）和国际初步审查机构（IPEA）对根据《专利合作条约》（PCT）提起、并以USPTO作为受理局的国际申请进行审查的协议。根据协议条款，终止协议将于2022年12月1日生效。在此期间，USPTO建议根据PCT提交国际申请的申请人在选Rospatent作为ISA或IPEA之前务必谨慎。
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'Fun and Tasty'—McDonald's choices of possible brand names for its Russian successor
“趣美味”——麦当劳为其在俄特许经营商选择多个品牌名
On May 27, McDonald's in Russia has registered possible brand names for the firm taking over its fast-food restaurants there, including "Fun and Tasty" and "The Same One". The company said that the trademarks registered with Russia's Rospatent agency, from which it ultimately planned to choose one brand, also included "Just Like That" and "Open Checkout". As world's largest burger chain, with nearly 850 restaurants in Russia, McDonald’s is selling up to one of its local licensees in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the subsequent wave of Western outrage and sanctions.
5月27日，麦当劳在俄罗斯为即将接收其快餐店的俄罗斯公司注册了多个品牌名，包括“趣美味”、“老地方”等。麦当劳公司称，其向俄罗斯专利局递交的商标申请还包括“就是那个味”和“开放结账”，并计划最终从中选取一个作为品牌名。作为世界上最大的汉堡连锁店，麦当劳在俄餐厅有近850家，由于乌克兰事件和随之而来的西方制裁，麦当劳将其快餐店出售给了当地的特许经理人以应对危机。
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JPO announced latest Plan for AI 2022-2026
日本专利局最新人工智能（AI）行动计划（2022-2026）公布
On May 30, Japan Patent Office (JPO) announced its latest Plan for Artificial Intelligence (AI) (2022-2026)，which is an update of the JPO's "Plan for the Utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies" published in 2017, in which a six-year plan to improve the complexity and efficiency of patent management using AI technologies (through 2022) was issued. This latest plan also summarizes the results of its work over the past few years. The AI Research Project is a research project commissioned by JPO in 2021 to study how AI should be utilized in the next five years.
5月30日，日本专利局JPO公布了最新的人工智能（AI）行动计划（2022年-2026年）。在此之前，JPO曾在2017年公布《人工智能（AI）技术利用行动计划》、并推出利用AI技术提高专利管理复杂性和效率的六年计划（到2022年），本次计划则是对该计划的更新，并在其中对过去几年的工作成果做出了总结。 “人工智能研究项目“是JPO在2021年度开展的一项委托研究项目 ，以研究在未来五年内应如何利用人工智能。
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Patent applications published by the EPO exceed four million as L'oréal filed EP 4 000 000
欧莱雅递交EP4000000专利——欧专局400万件专利申请量达成
欧莱雅编号EP4 000 000专利图解
On May 25, European Patent Office (EPO) announced that the patent applications of EPO reached a new milestone as the EPO published EP 4 000 000, the application of which came from L'Oréal, one of the top ten French applicants in the 2021 Patent Index, concerns an image recognition method in which artificial intelligence (AI) is trained to recognise skin tone, helping customers match their skin tone to cosmetic products. Over the past decade, fourth industrial revolution (4IR) innovation such as AI has also spread into domains that are not traditionally regarded as digital, for example, the cosmetics sector.
5月25日，随着EP4000000号专利申请的公开，欧洲专利局宣布其400万件专利申请量达成，这是一个新的里程碑。该申请来自欧莱雅，是2021年专利索引中法国十大申请人之一，该专利申请涉及一种图像识别方法，利用训练人工智能（AI）来识别肤色，帮助客户将他们的肤色与化妆品匹配。 在过去的十年里，第四次工业革命（4IR）的创新，如人工智能等，已经蔓延到传统上不被视为数字的领域，例如化妆品行业。
IP Practice
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Official apology: God Eater Team’s new work Project Shaz was charged with plagiarism
日本《噬神者》团队新作被指抄袭 官方道歉
On May 24th, a domestic artist @Yao Guo Guo alleged on Weibo that one of the female characters in Japanese game company Tokyo Virtual Theory's (TVT) new work "Project Shaz" was identical to his previous work from plenty of perspectives such as the clothes tailoring, color blending, and even the "infusion bags design". On May 25th, TVT officially apologized, stating that the character was still in progress and admitting that during the designing process a method of cutting and pasting from reference images was used. The "plagiarism fiasco" was due to TVT’s negligence in releasing the work to the public without checking and confirmation with the illustrators.
5月24日，国内画师@药锅锅在微博上表示，日本游戏公司Tokyo Virtual Theory的新作《Project Shaz》其中一个女性角色，从衣服剪裁到配色，甚至连“两个输液袋”的设计都和他之前的作品一样，涉嫌抄袭。25日，TVT公司发布致歉信，表示设计问题的人设是尚处于制作中的内容，并承认“开发过程中确实有参考以下插图，采用了拼接等手法”。但是他们在对外发布时并未与插画师进行核实确认，导致了此次风波。
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Meta Platforms was accused of patent infringement in AR/VR by Immersion
Immersion公司起诉Meta Platforms侵犯其AR/VR专利权
On May 26, Immersion, a haptic technology development company, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Meta Platforms (formerly named as Facebook) in a U.S. district court in Waco, Texas, accusing the company of violating patents covering "haptic" effects in augmented reality and virtual reality with the product Meta Quest 2, which can be regarded as one of the leading VR headsets in the industry. In the complaint filed by Immersion, the product Meta Quest 2 was accused of having infringed six of the Immersion’s patents covering haptic technology.
5月26日，触觉技术开发公司Immersion在得克萨斯州韦科的一个地区法院对Meta（原Facebook）提起专利侵权诉讼，指控Meta通过侵犯其专利的方式打造了业界领先的虚拟现实（VR）头戴设备。Immersion在起诉书中称，Meta Quest 2侵犯了其六项涉及触觉技术的专利。
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Ford joins Avanci patent pool
福特加入Avanci专利池
On May 31, Avanci announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Ford Motor Company. With one agreement, Ford gains access to all 4G, 3G, and 2G standard essential patents owned by the 49 patent owners currently participating in the Avanci licensing program, as well as any patent owner who joins the program in the future, for use in Ford’s connected vehicles. It was reported that Ford’s acceptance of the patent license from Avanci was largely influenced by the earlier German injunction.
5月31日，专利池Avanci宣布与福特汽车公司签署了一项专利许可协议。通过这项协议，福特公司可以获得目前参与Avanci池许可计划的49个专利所有人以及未来将加入该计划的所有专利权人所拥有的4G、3G和2G标准基本专利，并将其用于福特的联网汽车。据报道，福特公司接受Avanci公司的专利许可主要是受到先前德国禁令的影响。
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Pfizer pharma patent was canceled by the Rospatent
俄专局撤销辉瑞公司药品专利
Russian pharma producer "PSK Pharma" has been successful in patent cancellation proceedings instituted against US Pfizer at the Rospatent, with respect to pharmaceutical active principle tofacitinib (Janus kinase group inhibitor) used for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other affections in pharmaceutical product under trade name Jaquinus, which was registered in Russia in 2013. The grounds for cancellation put forward by the Russian company were that the initial patent application did not contain some contents featuring in the granted patent claims (added matter) and that the patent claims did not present the necessary requisites of novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability.
俄罗斯制药商 “PSK Pharma” 在俄罗斯专利局（Rospatent）对美国辉瑞公司提起的专利撤销程序中获得成功，该专利涉及用于治疗类风湿性关节炎和其他疾病的药物活性原理（Janus激酶组抑制剂），其商品名为Jaquinus, 2013年注册于俄罗斯。PSK提出的撤销理由是，该专利最初的专利申请没有包含已批准的专利权利要求中的一些内容，且该专利权利要求不符合必要的新颖性、创造性和工业适用性的要求。
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Eigencomm withdrew its counterclaimed against ASR
上海移芯通信撤回对翱捷科技反诉
On May 31, ASR Electronics announced that it has received a ruling from the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court, that Eigencomm and Liu Shi as the plaintiffs were allowed to withdraw the case against ASR in which ASR was accused of having conducted bad faith filing of infringement case. The litigation should date back to August in 2020, when ASR filed two lawsuits against Eigencomm and Liu, alleging the two defendants have infringed its technological secrets, the claims of which was up to 235 million yuan. But in 2021, Eigencomm and Liu counterclaimed that the litigation raised by ASR was of bad faith, for which ASR should be liable for compensation.
5月31日，翱捷科技股份有限公司发布公告，称其收到了上海知识产权法院就原告上海移芯通信科技有限公司、刘石与被告翱捷科技股份有限公司因恶意提起知识产权诉讼损害责任纠纷一案作出的裁定，该裁定准许原告撤回起诉。双方的诉讼可以追溯到2020年8月。当时，翱捷科技对上海移芯和刘石针对两起技术秘密侵害纠纷提起上诉，要求赔偿的标的高达2.35亿元，但次年，上海移芯公司、刘石则对翱捷科技提起了反诉，称2020年8月翱捷科技的上诉系恶意诉讼，要求其承担侵权责任。
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Jointown and Goaland secure multi-mln financing with IP assets
九州通和高澜获数千万元知识产权质押贷款
Two Chinese public companies Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. (九州通医药集团股份有限公司) and Guangzhou Goaland Energy Conservation Tech. Co., Ltd. (广州高澜节能技术股份有限公司) in May obtained credit to access loans of 80 million yuan and 35 million yuan from the Bank of China (BOC) and Hankou Bank Co., Ltd. by pledging their trademark and utility model patents as collateral to their creditor banks respectively under the intellectual property (IP) financing scheme China has been pushing hard in recent years.
5月，根据中国正大力推进的知识产权（IP）融资计划，两家中国上市公司通过将其商标和实用新型专利质押的方式，分别从中国银行和汉口银行获得了8000万元和3500万元的贷款。这两家上市公司分别是九州通医药集团股份有限公司和广州高澜节能技术股份有限公司。
Case Analysis
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中兴公司在深圳市中级人民法院诉康文森公司在先，康文森公司在德国法院起诉中兴公司在后。德国法院一审判决给予中兴公司禁令，使得中兴公司面临着要么退出德国市场，要么接受康文森公司高额标准必要专利许可费率的不利结果。
根据中兴公司提出的行为保全申请，深圳中院对康文森公司采取行为保全禁执令措施，康文森公司未向德国杜塞尔多夫法院申请执行针对中兴的禁令判决，并积极与中兴进行标准必要专利许可谈判，最终促成双方达成公平、合理、无歧视的F R A N D许可协议并履行。2020年11月2日，中兴公司向深圳中院申请撤诉，双方纠纷得以顺利解决。本案禁执令的颁发，不仅依法有效保护了中兴公司作为高新技术企业的合法权益，也为今后进一步探索完善我国的禁执令制度提供了有益经验。本案入选“深圳知识产权司法保护创新案例”“2020年度广东省知识产权审判十大案件”。
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