Years of bitterness
It's clear that gryce and ox had been sunk years ago。
In june 2017, a source obtained from gwig, mentioned that, since 2010, ox had extracted more than 300 core personnel from the r & d, quality control and other sectors through various improper methods, and that the means were constantly being upgraded. Gwits also stated that the purpose of ox was not just to “steal” the brain, but to steal the commercial secrets of gwit, to “steal” the core technology or the latest project information in research and development。
In august 2015, gwigs brought ox in court for alleged violation of its three practical new patent rights, demanding that ox immediately cease the violation of gwigs and compensate for the corresponding economic losses。
The guangzhou court of intellectual property took up the case and rendered a first instance judgement in august 2016, finding that ox had violated three practical new patents on glyze. Ox appealed the first instance judgement to the guangdong provincial high people's court. The guangdong high court rendered a final judgement in the case, dismissing the appeal, upholding the sentence and finding that the violation had been committed by ox, immediately suspending the sale of the infractioned air-conditioning products and compensating gwig electric for the economic loss of 2. 3 million yuan。
On 19 june 2017, gwits announced again that he would sue ox in guangdong provincial high people's court. According to gwig, over 30 items of ox, including air conditioners such as the 2017 new athena series, were still being sold, and tortulators, a patent entitled “up and down, integration of the shell”, requested the court to confirm the ox tort and award damages of $110 million。
In response to the lawsuit, ox responded that, after chagri, there was no patent entitled “up and down, integration of the shell”. Ox added that the news mentioned over 30 items of the type involved, including the 2017 new athena series, which was found to have been released as early as 2015 and not in the type of the proceedings。
In response to gwig's allegations that he had dug the walls, ox stated that the company's recruiters had never had any labour arbitrations with gwig regarding the ban on competition, that they had been introduced through normal recruitment channels, and that they would focus on whether the person concerned had a confidentiality agreement and a ban on competitions。
Ox vs. Grigg
This controversy continues to this day。
On 10 june, gwits related sources stated to journalists that ox violated the patent rights of gwits frequently and maliciously, copying the independent innovation of gwits, and that in 2017 and 2018 alone, ox was convicted by a court of violating six patents of gwits, four of which were finally decided, with a compensation of $5. 3 million; two first-instance judgements, with compensation of $43 million; and one case in first-instance, with an award of $110 million。
“in the face of repeated court findings of malicious torts, ox does not reflect on how to avoid copying, but, through its wholly owned subsidiary, ningpojitung, replicates products that have already been sold in large quantities, applying for dozens of practical new patents and being authorized, all of which are identical to gwit products。
Moreover, the above-mentioned persons have stated that ox used three of these practical new patents to sue the ningbo intermediate people's court for gwig's infractions and claim compensation in the amount of tens of thousands, “for the time being all the relevant patents have been (recognised) invalid”
“first” and “third”
At the onset of the hot season of air conditioning sales, gwig's letter of reporting was considered to be a firepower。
In its submission, gwig mentioned that, according to data published by the oviyun network on the retail sales of top20 machines in the market for chinese air conditioners, only kfr-25gw/nfw+3, kfr-35gw/nfw+3 had an online retail value of $1. 671 billion in 2018 and sold nearly millions of units。
As also mentioned in the round-up, at a time when the 618 air-conditioning sales season was on the rise, the use of denigration by gwig was clearly anomalous competition. Ox also cited data from the third party of the oviyun network that during the first quarter of the year, the ox air-conditioning line had increased by 56 per cent, while the gvc had fallen by 11. 6 per cent。
Founded in 1986, the ox group covers such areas as household electricity, electrical equipment, medical care, real estate and financial investment. In 2018, the oaks group earned $86 billion in assets totalling $56. 6 billion and over 25,000 employees. Of these, the ox house electric industries group, which is the largest of the ox group, currently owns five industrial bases in ningbo (zhuizhou, gao xin, nanchang, tianjin, makamayama) and is building bases in zhengzhou and thailand. The main products include domestic air conditioning, commercial air conditioning, kitchen appliances, household appliances, etc。
According to ox, ox air conditioning is the third highest in the industry, with sales in more than 100 countries and territories in the middle east, europe, asia-pacific, africa and the americas。
Gwits earned $2024 million in operating income and $2620. 3 million in net profits in 2018. Of this amount, air-conditioning operations received up to $15. 56 billion, or 77. 83 per cent. In the 2018 annual report, gwig had ranked gwig by 21. 9 per cent of the global market share in household air-conditioning at the top of 7 percentage points。
However, during the first quarter of this year gvac was under pressure. The first-quarter report of 2019 issued by yicon, a third-party data firm, showed that glig was in third place, accounting for less than half of the first beauty; the retail dimension, with glac being only half of the second ox, was just over a third of the beauty. On-line malls, retail dimensions, and the united states has the highest pressure。
Public reporting of competition risks
What do the lawyers think about the gwits report to the competition
“citizens and legal persons have the right to report violations committed by others, but whether the report is substantiated or false is the key to the problem and is currently subject to investigation by the general directorate of markets”
It was also stressed that reporting in a public manner actually increased the risk for gwig appliances and that if the report was false, it could cause some damage to ox. “the risk is high unless there is hard evidence. The harm caused (the glig side) entails the consequences of the violation.”
