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The road to mercury-free batteries is difficult

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(Summary description)I believe readers who are concerned about the development of China's battery industry are still impressed. A message in early 2006 was striking: after a serious trial, the Beijing High Court made a final judgment on the case of Xinlida Battery Co., Ltd. v. National Patent Reexamination Board. The judgment found that the facts were wrong, and the main reason for the appeal was established by the appellant Xinlida Company. The appeal was supported, the first instance judgment and the decision of the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office were repealed, and the name was maintained as "Mercury-free alkaline button cell". The utility model patent right with patent number 01234722.1 is valid.

        Readers who read this news are relieved, thinking that this means that the mercury-free patents for buttons that are of great significance in China and even in the history of the battery are settled, and the development of mercury-free batteries in China will be benign Development path.
However, it is unexpected that this controversy that began in 2002 and concluded at the end of 2005 is far from over, and it will continue endlessly in the next four years. Within 8 years, there were three lawsuits and two reversals, but they did not reach a final conclusion. Inventions and creations that should have benefited mankind have been suspended in the air until now. Instead of bringing imaginary benefits to the company, The burden of dragging its development, Nan Ke Yimeng's sadness can not help but frighten.

        Why does a clearly structured, identified, and significant invention create so many tangles? What secret lies behind this?

        Mercury-free batteries are very important to humans because mercury in products, including mercury in batteries, threatens the health of people around the world. It is reported that 600,000 liters of water can be contaminated by a miniature mercury-containing alkaline button battery, which is equivalent to a person's drinking water in a lifetime. Although starting in 1995, the United States and Europe have successively issued relevant regulations banning the sale of mercury-containing batteries, which clearly stipulate that alkaline zinc-manganese batteries cannot add mercury, and the mercury content must not exceed 0.0005% of the total battery. Technology can produce mercury-free button batteries, which can only allow the mercury content of button batteries to not exceed 2% of the total battery mass.

        And China's battery export volume has accounted for more than one-half of the total international battery for several consecutive years. In order to be in line with international standards, in 1997, the Chinese government issued a series of measures including the "Regulations on Limiting Mercury Content in Battery Products". In just two or three years, China's battery industry has solved the mercury-free problem of alkaline zinc-manganese batteries through technical research. However, facing the increasing use of button batteries, countries around the world do not have corresponding solutions.

        Abroad, more than ten years, Japan, the United States, Europe and other well-known battery manufacturers have done a lot of research on mercury-free button batteries without mercury. However, there are still technical problems that cannot be solved, and no company has been able to successfully produce alkaline mercury-free button batteries, which has caused the use of mercury-containing alkaline button batteries in the global market. Billions of button batteries are produced and used every year, leaving people in China and the rest of the world at risk of exposure to mercury.

        Good news finally came from the battery industry. After numerous failures of mercury-free button batteries, Xinlida Battery Co., Ltd. finally achieved initial success in 2000.

        On October 3, 2002, the utility model patent of "Mercury-free Alkaline Battery" applied by Xin Lida was successfully granted. In order to avoid encountering patent problems in overseas markets, the company applied for this patent in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and other EU countries at the same time.

        Because the world's button battery industry has been plagued by excessive mercury content for a long time, although many famous companies have made research breakthroughs in this field, they have not achieved success. Therefore, the first new Lida to eat crabs has the right to speak in this industry. According to estimates at that time, if a budget of 20-30 million button-less batteries was produced in one day, the monthly output would be 70 billion to 1 billion. With a monthly output value of more than 100 million yuan, Xinlida plans to list the company and develop into a large enterprise with more than 10,000 people.

The road to mercury-free batteries is difficult

(Summary description)I believe readers who are concerned about the development of China's battery industry are still impressed. A message in early 2006 was striking: after a serious trial, the Beijing High Court made a final judgment on the case of Xinlida Battery Co., Ltd. v. National Patent Reexamination Board. The judgment found that the facts were wrong, and the main reason for the appeal was established by the appellant Xinlida Company. The appeal was supported, the first instance judgment and the decision of the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office were repealed, and the name was maintained as "Mercury-free alkaline button cell". The utility model patent right with patent number 01234722.1 is valid.

        Readers who read this news are relieved, thinking that this means that the mercury-free patents for buttons that are of great significance in China and even in the history of the battery are settled, and the development of mercury-free batteries in China will be benign Development path.
However, it is unexpected that this controversy that began in 2002 and concluded at the end of 2005 is far from over, and it will continue endlessly in the next four years. Within 8 years, there were three lawsuits and two reversals, but they did not reach a final conclusion. Inventions and creations that should have benefited mankind have been suspended in the air until now. Instead of bringing imaginary benefits to the company, The burden of dragging its development, Nan Ke Yimeng's sadness can not help but frighten.

        Why does a clearly structured, identified, and significant invention create so many tangles? What secret lies behind this?

        Mercury-free batteries are very important to humans because mercury in products, including mercury in batteries, threatens the health of people around the world. It is reported that 600,000 liters of water can be contaminated by a miniature mercury-containing alkaline button battery, which is equivalent to a person's drinking water in a lifetime. Although starting in 1995, the United States and Europe have successively issued relevant regulations banning the sale of mercury-containing batteries, which clearly stipulate that alkaline zinc-manganese batteries cannot add mercury, and the mercury content must not exceed 0.0005% of the total battery. Technology can produce mercury-free button batteries, which can only allow the mercury content of button batteries to not exceed 2% of the total battery mass.

        And China's battery export volume has accounted for more than one-half of the total international battery for several consecutive years. In order to be in line with international standards, in 1997, the Chinese government issued a series of measures including the "Regulations on Limiting Mercury Content in Battery Products". In just two or three years, China's battery industry has solved the mercury-free problem of alkaline zinc-manganese batteries through technical research. However, facing the increasing use of button batteries, countries around the world do not have corresponding solutions.

        Abroad, more than ten years, Japan, the United States, Europe and other well-known battery manufacturers have done a lot of research on mercury-free button batteries without mercury. However, there are still technical problems that cannot be solved, and no company has been able to successfully produce alkaline mercury-free button batteries, which has caused the use of mercury-containing alkaline button batteries in the global market. Billions of button batteries are produced and used every year, leaving people in China and the rest of the world at risk of exposure to mercury.

        Good news finally came from the battery industry. After numerous failures of mercury-free button batteries, Xinlida Battery Co., Ltd. finally achieved initial success in 2000.

        On October 3, 2002, the utility model patent of "Mercury-free Alkaline Battery" applied by Xin Lida was successfully granted. In order to avoid encountering patent problems in overseas markets, the company applied for this patent in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and other EU countries at the same time.

        Because the world's button battery industry has been plagued by excessive mercury content for a long time, although many famous companies have made research breakthroughs in this field, they have not achieved success. Therefore, the first new Lida to eat crabs has the right to speak in this industry. According to estimates at that time, if a budget of 20-30 million button-less batteries was produced in one day, the monthly output would be 70 billion to 1 billion. With a monthly output value of more than 100 million yuan, Xinlida plans to list the company and develop into a large enterprise with more than 10,000 people.

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I believe readers who are concerned about the development of China's battery industry are still impressed. A message in early 2006 was striking: after a serious trial, the Beijing High Court made a final judgment on the case of Xinlida Battery Co., Ltd. v. National Patent Reexamination Board. The judgment found that the facts were wrong, and the main reason for the appeal was established by the appellant Xinlida Company. The appeal was supported, the first instance judgment and the decision of the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office were repealed, and the name was maintained as "Mercury-free alkaline button cell". The utility model patent right with patent number 01234722.1 is valid.
 
        Readers who read this news are relieved, thinking that this means that the mercury-free patents for buttons that are of great significance in China and even in the history of the battery are settled, and the development of mercury-free batteries in China will be benign Development path.
However, it is unexpected that this controversy that began in 2002 and concluded at the end of 2005 is far from over, and it will continue endlessly in the next four years. Within 8 years, there were three lawsuits and two reversals, but they did not reach a final conclusion. Inventions and creations that should have benefited mankind have been suspended in the air until now. Instead of bringing imaginary benefits to the company, The burden of dragging its development, Nan Ke Yimeng's sadness can not help but frighten.
 
        Why does a clearly structured, identified, and significant invention create so many tangles? What secret lies behind this?
 
        Mercury-free batteries are very important to humans because mercury in products, including mercury in batteries, threatens the health of people around the world. It is reported that 600,000 liters of water can be contaminated by a miniature mercury-containing alkaline button battery, which is equivalent to a person's drinking water in a lifetime. Although starting in 1995, the United States and Europe have successively issued relevant regulations banning the sale of mercury-containing batteries, which clearly stipulate that alkaline zinc-manganese batteries cannot add mercury, and the mercury content must not exceed 0.0005% of the total battery. Technology can produce mercury-free button batteries, which can only allow the mercury content of button batteries to not exceed 2% of the total battery mass.
 
        And China's battery export volume has accounted for more than one-half of the total international battery for several consecutive years. In order to be in line with international standards, in 1997, the Chinese government issued a series of measures including the "Regulations on Limiting Mercury Content in Battery Products". In just two or three years, China's battery industry has solved the mercury-free problem of alkaline zinc-manganese batteries through technical research. However, facing the increasing use of button batteries, countries around the world do not have corresponding solutions.
 
        Abroad, more than ten years, Japan, the United States, Europe and other well-known battery manufacturers have done a lot of research on mercury-free button batteries without mercury. However, there are still technical problems that cannot be solved, and no company has been able to successfully produce alkaline mercury-free button batteries, which has caused the use of mercury-containing alkaline button batteries in the global market. Billions of button batteries are produced and used every year, leaving people in China and the rest of the world at risk of exposure to mercury.
 
        Good news finally came from the battery industry. After numerous failures of mercury-free button batteries, Xinlida Battery Co., Ltd. finally achieved initial success in 2000.
 
        On October 3, 2002, the utility model patent of "Mercury-free Alkaline Battery" applied by Xin Lida was successfully granted. In order to avoid encountering patent problems in overseas markets, the company applied for this patent in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and other EU countries at the same time.
 
        Because the world's button battery industry has been plagued by excessive mercury content for a long time, although many famous companies have made research breakthroughs in this field, they have not achieved success. Therefore, the first new Lida to eat crabs has the right to speak in this industry. According to estimates at that time, if a budget of 20-30 million button-less batteries was produced in one day, the monthly output would be 70 billion to 1 billion. With a monthly output value of more than 100 million yuan, Xinlida plans to list the company and develop into a large enterprise with more than 10,000 people.
 
        Obviously, this is a huge market. At home and abroad, the company that produces button batteries is not Xinlida. In the face of Xinlida's invention, some competitors have a bit of anxiety besides envy: Because Xinlida has already applied for a patent, it means that Since only the new Lida has mastered or has the right to own this technology, according to regulations, other competitors can only stay away from this vast market. In order to gain access to this market, individual infringers, exploiting loopholes in the law, and using the patent reexamination system to request invalid patents, want to eat up the inventor's patent rights for free.
 
        Soon New Leader discovered a large number of counterfeit mercury-free button batteries in the market and snatched many customers. More strange things are still to come. Just before Sinlida had not taken measures to safeguard its legal rights, the infringing company filed a lawsuit against the wicked and filed a request for invalidation of Sinlida's patent with the National Patent Responsibility Commission.
 
        A Guangdong company is requesting the revocation of the new Lida patent. It is believed that since cylindrical batteries have been mercury-free as early as the 1990s in China, although the shape of the new Lida button batteries has changed, the principle has not changed. Technology done. The new Lida patent is obviously not creative. The application declared the patent invalid.
 
        In order to get Xin Lida to comply, in March 2003, the person in charge of the infringing company invited the person in charge of Xin Lida to meet. Coercion is required to share with the new Lida patent, otherwise the patent application will be invalidated and become a well-known technology, which means that any company can enter the market. "Your patent is an antique vase. This antique is very valuable. You cooperate with me and give me half of the antique value for free. You still have half. But if I do n’t share it, I have the ability to fight this antique. Broken, it is worthless. "
 
        The other party's unreasonable demands and intimidation were immediately rejected by Xin Lida, because Xin Lida firmly believed that its inventions would be protected by patent law.
 
        However, the results were unexpected. In May 2004, the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office based on the fact that the structure of Xin Lida's patented products is not substantially different from the existing button battery structure and that its mercury-free technology is similar to that of cylindrical alkaline manganese batteries. The decision to invalidate the utility model patent for "mercury-free alkaline button batteries" was issued.
 
        Facing the result, Xinlida Company refused to accept it, and then filed a lawsuit with Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court and brought the Patent Reexamination Board to court. However, the court of first instance still relied on the judgment of the Patent Reexamination Board and made a judgment to maintain the invalidity of the patent. At this time, the infringer again threatened the patentee to sign an exclusive and free patent implementation license contract. If the infringer also owns the patent, the patent can be guaranteed to be valid, and it will be formally invalid without being signed.
 
        The patentee refused, and the lawsuit went to the Beijing High Court. After careful trial, on December 20, 2005, the Beijing High Court made a final judgment: the first instance judgment and the decision of the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office were revoked, maintaining the name "mercury-free alkaline button cell", the patent The utility model patent No. 123456722.1 is valid.
 
        A dramatic scene appeared. After the Supreme Court's final judgment, the infringer launched a second invalidation action, and the applicant was replaced by the company's chief secretary.
 
        So in the following three years, Xin Lida had to repeat the last process again, until August 22, 2008, the Beijing Higher People's Court again rejected the decision of the Patent Reexamination Board and the Beijing First Intermediate Court.
 
        There is an old saying in China that it is nothing more than three. But the opponent seemed very persistent. In 2008, the infringer repeatedly submitted invalidation applications to the Patent Reexamination Board. It is shocking that in June of this year, the Patent Reexamination Board determined that the patent was invalid. We believe that the mercury-free technology of Xinlida is a technology that can easily be conceived by ordinary technicians in the battery field that are not successful in Japan. Therefore, it is not creative.
 
        As an invention that fills the world's gap, brings the gospel to the world's environmental protection cause, and brings opportunities to Chinese enterprises, it has experienced 8 years of marathon lawsuits. Lawsuits year after year not only did not bring the due benefits to the inventor, but instead became a worrying burden at any time. At the same time, under the influence of endless lawsuits, the development of enterprises has been greatly damaged. Due to the adverse effects of the lawsuit, Xinlida's market image was affected. More than 50% of orders were snatched by infringers, and product prices fell by more than 30%, resulting in very low profits. Xin Lida's dream of going public is unknown. The competitors have obtained a lot of benefits in the process of maliciously invalidating the new Lida patent, and the business seems to be in full swing.
 
        In the case of the invalidation of the patent under the law, we cannot help asking: Who protects the rights of the inventor? In response to this case, some experts believe that market competition is a double-edged sword. While bringing vitality to the market, it also brings risks. And unregulated competition without restrictions will not only disrupt the market, but even bring disaster to the market. However, due to the imperfection of some legal measures, some infringers have the opportunity to use all kinds of relationships and means to gain their selfish desires, and they are forced to eat the patentee's patent, which is really trembling!
 
        The battery industry believes that China's one of the world ’s leading patented technologies that have made significant contributions to the world ’s environmental protection has been invalidated three times in a row. This has led to companies with independent innovation only receiving unsuccessful patent invalidation lawsuits for eight years, infringement. In addition to large-scale long-term infringement, people are even more frightened that they want to eat up your patent rights. They are like triad means to make a company that has a bright future and gradually lose its competitiveness. The invalid review decisions made by the State Intellectual Property Office's patent reexamination committee three times in a row can be opposed to the court, but there is no appropriate department to supervise them. In addition, there is a corrupt culture in the society. It is hoped that the leaders of the central government and the State Council can pay attention to this independent innovation Three times in a row, the abnormal situation of invalidity has saved China's independent innovation enterprises.

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