嘉興山蒲照明公司維權(quán)成功，獲賠超2100萬美元。
近日，美國德州法院法官就LED照明領(lǐng)域美國得州法院專利訴訟案件（案號CASE NO.6:20-CV-00018-ADA；原告:嘉興山蒲照明公司與Obert Inc.;被告:晨輝光寶、紹興瑞新照明、美國Elliott Electric Supply Inc.）,做出判決(Entry of Judgment)，判定CH在故意侵權(quán)的時間內(nèi)，加重一倍的損害賠償，因此，CH須付給山蒲的損害賠償總金額約為2121萬美元（約1.43億元人民幣）。
此前，2021年11月的陪審團(tuán)裁定被告侵犯原告的美國專利US 9,939,140、US 10,352,540和US 10,295,125，專利有效，且被告晨輝光寶、紹興瑞新照明(兩者合稱CH)的產(chǎn)品(包括Type A,Type B,包含使用了明石LT2600系列IC的雙端type-B產(chǎn)品)全部成立故意侵權(quán)，詳見判決書附件。
此外，Elliott須就其銷售（詳見判決書附件）其他非CH制造的產(chǎn)品負(fù)擔(dān)侵害賠償約30萬美元的賠償。法官尚未就陪審團(tuán)判定后的侵權(quán)行為進(jìn)行賠償金的判定，是以被告須負(fù)擔(dān)更多的損害賠償（也就是2021/10/11以后持續(xù)銷售的侵權(quán)品，將另作計算）。
法官在判決意見書中細(xì)數(shù)ＣＨ故意侵權(quán)的事跡，并且判定加重一倍的損害賠償。這也是該法官首次做出的加重?fù)p害賠償判決。這些被法官列舉的事跡包含:(摘錄自判決意見書，請自行對照參考)
(1)ＣＨ在知悉山蒲專利后，除了在大約2020/11/12聘雇訴訟律師外無其他作為（”They took no action other than to retain litigation counsel for this case on or about November 12,2020.”）；
(2)毫無爭議的，ＣＨ持有原告山蒲的機(jī)密文件（”It is undisputed that CH possesses confidential testing report on Super Lighting tubes and a comparison of Super Lighting and CH tubes.”）；
(3)CH在證據(jù)調(diào)查程序中對於何時知悉山蒲專利一事，一直閃爍其辭，但最終仍被一份中文意見書給揭發(fā)出來，CH確實(shí)早就知悉其產(chǎn)品的潛在侵權(quán)風(fēng)險（”Defendants never substantively responded to Plaintiffs’discovery requests regarding Defendants’awareness of the Asserted Patents and any steps Defendants took once they gained that awareness.The existence of the Chinese opinion does suggest that CH and Ruising were aware and concerned of the potential risks the Asserted Patents posed to Defendants’products.”）；
(4)江清波(CH重要干部)與其代理律師Radulescu在2021年5月曲解法官的裁定意旨，公開地在微信上與網(wǎng)絡(luò)上發(fā)表不當(dāng)新聞稿意圖貶損山蒲，自恃代替法官未審先判（”This Court,granted Defendants leave to amend their answer to Super Lighting’s complaint.Yet Jack Jiang took to WeChat,a popular social platform in China,and described that ruling as an“acknowledgement that[Super Lighting’s]patents were acquired illegally.”“That is a misrepresentation of this court’s order.”“Jack and his counsel at Radulescu also issued a press release…”）；
(5)法官也采信ＣＨ和嘉興山蒲之間的競爭猛烈，以致于ＣＨ提出不尋常的豐厚待遇把江清波從山蒲挖到ＣＨ公司，更甚者，CH被起出了嘉興山蒲的機(jī)密文檔。（”The Court is persuaded that the competition between Super Lighting and CH is fierce;it drove CH to poach Jack Jiang from Super Lighting by offering“unusually large benefits.”“Moreover,CH produced Super Lighting’s confidential documents”）。
山蒲照明在美國多年的經(jīng)營宗旨是誠信并尊重知識產(chǎn)權(quán)，而且為創(chuàng)造和諧的營商環(huán)境在一直努力著，訴訟是不得已而為之的事情，也衷心希望各界能夠尊重知識產(chǎn)權(quán)，在市場上形成公平的競爭的氛圍，期盼各方提出自己的創(chuàng)新并以最優(yōu)質(zhì)的產(chǎn)品來服務(wù)消費(fèi)者。對于山蒲的發(fā)明或外觀專利有興趣深入了解的，可以到訪:http://jx.super-lamps.com/patent/;該網(wǎng)站每月都會更新被實(shí)質(zhì)審查過的各國發(fā)明或外觀專利信息，便于同業(yè)或經(jīng)銷商分析，而更好的尊重專利、開展業(yè)務(wù)并取得成功。
