Awareness of medical equipment property rights need to be strengthened

Changzhou has grown into one of China's medical equipment industry base, has an important position in the medical device R & D and production areas. But not long ago, Changzhou, a local medical device companies inexplicably lying in gun: the patent inventors high a own a business to report to court on the grounds that they infringed many other medical device manufacturers. be implicated. So what is the event it?

　Changzhou two lawyers accept defendant Changzhou Medical Devices Co., Ltd. commissioned, they immediately and obtain written by the plaintiff Lin applied for a patent to the State Intellectual Property Office said the state from which found that the plaintiff expressly waived in patent applications the scope of rights. Found that after the match, the significant difference on the technical features of the accused product with the plaintiff patent, that the defendant's product does not constitute a violation of the plaintiff invention patents.

In accordance with the provisions of China's Patent Law, the term of protection of the invention patent for 20 years, the Gowing vaginal dilator patent protection period to expire on October 31, 2009, from November 1, 2009, will lose patent the law on patent protection. Found health to the company production of vaginal examination in the patent is about to lose the protection of the expiry of the term of protection, of Gowing and high British company infringed its patents for inventions, and in July 2011, will include health to the company, including a number of medical device companies taken to court.

    Sued a number of companies after the receipt of the complaint, both surprised and angry, surprised that the number of enterprises have been accused of infringement, the Gowing Gowing great posture clean sweep of the local medical device companies; angry plaintiff actually the industry as early as controversial industry standard-setter, and its alleged patent expiring patents.

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