With the settlement of the billion-dollar claim, the paint industry has opened up a new way of defending rights

China Paint Network
: With the approach of March 15, the protection of rights has once again become a hot topic in all walks of life. Recently, the home industry in the protection of rights also came new good news, the top 100 furniture billion yuan claims to "reconciliation" successfully closed the case. The protection of the rights of the top 100 furniture also once again for our
coatings
industry to provide reference experience, in the at the stage of plagiarism,
soarsing enterprises
also need to carry out the rights protection in the end, actively resist infringements, defend their legitimate rights and interests.
the beginning of 2014, the top 100 furniture has been found in a unified furniture, Xuanyi (Tianjin) Furniture Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Dongsheng Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd. production, sales and promised sales of Hanting legendary furniture in the bedside table (patent number ZL2009) More than 10 products, such as 30126695.8, sofa (patent number ZL201030139681.2), infringed the design patents of the top 100 furniture companies, resulting in significant damage to the legitimate rights and interests of the top 100 furniture companies. Due to ineffective communication, Top 100 Furniture filed a lawsuit against three companies in China's first intellectual property court, seeking 100 million yuan in damages. However, the case came over during the Spring Festival with the sound of "reconciliation". The case, the first to be heard since the establishment of intellectual property rights, ended in a "happy" outcome, but it opened a new path for the home industry, including paint.
Reporters in the terms of the settlement agreement, a unified commitment not to commit infringement of the patent rights of the top 100, and within 3 days of the signing of the agreement from the State Intellectual Property Office Patent Review Committee to withdraw all patent invalidity litigation against the top 100, in the absence of new litigation cases, may not again file a request for invalidity of the top 100 patents, the top 100 within 3 days after the agreement entered into force to the Beijing Intellectual Property Court to withdraw the unified litigation.
In fact, in the paint industry "plagiarism", "shanzhai" is a common thing, in the exhibition, everywhere can be seen "twin", "multiple" paint products, homogenization seriously hinders the normal and orderly development of the paint industry, but helpless is for this plagiarism phenomenon, there is no paint enterprises "stand up" to safeguard their rights and interests. Industry experts believe that the settlement of the 100-strong and unified appearance patent infringement cases, to the industry has brought a harmonious wind, creating a new model of home industry rights protection, conducive to the harmonious development of the industry. In this case, paint enterprises only in essence to strengthen the focus on products, in order to fundamentally resist the spread of industry chaos.
In short, their legitimate rights and interests can only be defended, enterprises in the road of development will inevitably encounter plagiarism, but paint enterprises must strengthen their awareness of rights, actively combat infringers, set an example for the industry, so as to allow their rights and interests to be protected. However, paint enterprises need to strengthen the industry's sense of self-discipline, strengthen independent research and development innovation ability, "take the idea" of the consequences are very serious!