"Market operators have increasingly paid attention to the value of patents. "Shenzhen Mijie Intelligent Electronics Co., Ltd." and OPPO have both claimed to have applied for patents before Xiaomi, but Xiaomi's CEO has not yet responded. "
Source: Southern Metropolis Daily
Author: Cai Hui Joe Qinchu
So begins the investigation of the reporter Cai Hui.
As we know the 25 October Xiaomi released the new one Mi Mix 3. This smartphone adopts the solution full screen but with the slide to access the unlock. Lei Jun has also "pushed" the scheme of the patent requested in February 2018 to underline the innovation of Xiaomi. But two days later "Shenzhen Mijie Intelligent Electronics Co., Ltd."Has published one open letter to Lei Jun on his official website, which Point your finger at the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 slide screen design. According to the letter, PTC patent application has already been applied for this type of screen (a process that facilitates obtaining protection for its inventions). But it was discovered that in reality there is still no trace of these patents presented by the aforementioned company. CEO Wang Tao explained the reason: the patent is still under review and in March or April it will be visible to everyone. What's more, after the conference at the "Forbidden City" of Xiaomi, OPPO product manager Li Sheng confirmed on Weibo that OPPO he had requested the manual and automatic slide mechanism in October 2017, before Xiaomi.
But whose is the full-screen slide?
After the notch fashion, manufacturers tried to hide the camera and other components behind the screen through a sliding mechanism that would allow a greater screen-body ratio than before. At the Xiaomi press conference a few days ago, Lei Jun declared that "the full screen of the 3 Mi Mix is definitely the first Xiaomi creation"And the patents have been shown. According to the patent number published by Lei Jun, it is clear that the mechanism was under the name "Mobile Phone 61" and that it was presented in February 2018 and then released in September of the same year.
The letter says that Xiaomi would have copied the whole screen idea from the "Oono" conference, another smartphone maker, of the 10 October 2017 (, promising the link). The 10 October 2017 in fact was held in Shanghai an Oono conference that actually announced the system and the method of realization of the full-screen display, and also announced that for the project was requested the PTC patent. International PCT patents are patents that are "delivered" to only 152 member states. It was also said at this press conference that the "Shenzhen Mijie Intelligent Electronics Co., Ltd. "has become a partner of Oono's full-screen solution in China.
"Our patent was registered in September 2017. The patent is now in the substantial revision phase and we have received a lot of feedback based on the progress of the patent examination, currently it is not open to the public but may be published in March-April next year. " says CEO Wang Tao.
Chinese journalists also noted that after the end of the Xiaomi conference, bloggers have leaked the OPPO patent form. OPPO product manager Li Sheng subsequently confirmed on Weibo that last year OPPO has applied for two patents, manual and automatic slide in full screen, with date of the 13 application October 2017 and he also said that the patent was presented before Xiaomi. However, in the end this full screen solution with slides was abandoned by OPPO, and finally OPPO Find X chose a "pocket" or "double track" solution as it was called.
Oono continues to fight against Xiaomi
It is worth noting that this it is not the first time that Oono and Xiaomi have had frictions due to patent problems: in fact last month, a company called "Deraltech"He quoted Xiaomi to"United States Federal District Court"Claiming he would presumably violated four of its patents relating to the selfie stick. Deraltech claimed that the selfie stick produced by Deraltech was developed by Oono and that the patented inventor was Yang Jinrong ... but "The Southern Reporter" discovered that Yang Jinrong had another identity. In addition, reporter Cai Hui searched for the keyword "Yang Jinrong" in the World Intellectual Property Library and found that although he had two patents in the 2017, it has nothing to do with the full screen in any way!
Yu Feifeng, director of the "Patent and Trademark Office", said:
"According to the results of the reporter Cai Hui Joe Qinchu (belonging to the" Southern Metropolis Daily "a newspaper of southern China) who started this investigation, in February 2018 Xiaomi requested a full-screen patent. According to Wang Tao (CEO of the other company) Oono's patent application on "Systems and methods for the realization of a full-screen display on portable terminals" was made in September 2017, before Xiaomi, but is still underway review. "
Is it a conspiracy? What do you think and above all do you think that the aforementioned disputes will become a potential risk for Xiaomi's expansion abroad in the future?
