Digital TV! Who else can I love if not you?

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We know that patent law is regional. If others do not apply for patents in our country, even if our products use other people's technology, it is not considered infringement. Although China's patent law was born in 1985, it has not been seriously enforced for more than 20 years. Even Chinese people themselves rarely know what patent law is, and foreigners don't know what Chinese patents are. Therefore, there are very few foreigners who come to China to apply for invention technology patents. It was not until 2003, when China wanted to join the WTO, that foreign companies began to apply for patents in China in large numbers. Most of these companies that applied for patents were foreign-funded enterprises with factories located in China.

Why did foreign companies wait until 2003 to apply for patents in China? Because China is a socialist country that has been off the track of the international trade market for nearly 60 years. If China did not want to join the WTO, others would not dare to rashly step into China to apply for patents. However, even if China is very eager to join the WTO, it will not be officially joined until the end of this year at the earliest. Before China officially joins the WTO, China can completely deny the rules of the game set by foreigners.

In addition, China's patent law was formulated by the Chinese, not by foreigners. In particular, there is a utility model patent law in China's patent law, which is not found in most foreign countries. This alone can scare foreigners, because China's utility model patents do not need to undergo substantive examination. No matter what kind of utility model patent you apply for, it can be authorized and protected by law according to China's patent law. In other words, any product produced by the Chinese can be protected by law anywhere in China as long as the registration fee is paid to the Chinese Patent Office.

In addition, China's integrated circuit patent law is different from that of foreign countries. Foreigners cannot apply for patents in China for integrated circuits that have been used, and Chinese people do not need to undergo substantive examination for integrated circuit patents. They only need to pay a patent registration fee of 2,050 yuan to the Chinese Patent Office to obtain authorization protection. In other words, currently integrated circuits used by foreigners are not protected in China, and Chinese people can use them to their heart's content.

Since foreigners rarely applied for patents in China before 2003, what reason did they have to come to China to collect patent fees? Even if they happened to apply for patents in China in 2003, their patents would not be authorized and take effect until after 2006, and then they could start to collect patent fees from Chinese people, because invention patents need to wait for three years for examination.

In fact, until today, foreigners have basically not received a penny of patent fees from Chinese people on Chinese soil. As for whether foreigners should come to China to collect patent fees after 2006, everyone understands this. Since everyone is on the same starting line, why should others who apply for patents in China not be protected by law? What's more, the fees for foreigners to apply for patents in China are almost ten times that of Chinese people.

No one can tell for sure whether foreigners can collect tens of billions of patent fees from China's digital TV standards every year after their patents applied for in China are authorized after 2006. Many domestic cable TV stations have been using foreign DVB-C and DVB-S digital TV standards for a long time. We don't know how much patent fees they have to pay to others every year. In addition, we don't know whether China's digital TV standard setters will charge TV users in the future.

Everyone believes that China's digital TV standard setters do not have their own intellectual property rights. In China's digital TV technical standards, as long as foreigners have not applied for patents in China, Chinese can apply for patents; or if foreigners have already applied for patents in China, Chinese can apply for utility model patents or appearance patents based on their invention patents. Even TV transmitting antennas, as long as the height of the antenna is 1 micron higher than others, can also apply for utility model patents and appearance patents. Therefore, every radio wave emitted from the transmitting antenna can be charged to Chinese TV users.

As a leader of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television said in the previous article: "In fact, this matter involves the interests of some small groups. Some people want to make money from the Chinese people under the banner of national industry."

So, if we choose DVB or ATSC foreign digital television standards, do we need to pay hundreds of billions of yuan in patent fees to others every year?

In my opinion, no. As mentioned above, it is "some people want to make money from the Chinese under the banner of national industry".

First of all, there are 230 companies and institutions in more than 50 countries joining the DVB camp, and more than 100 members in more than 30 countries joining the ATSC camp. Both DVB and ATSC digital television standards integrate the world's most advanced electronic technology and digital processing technology, including: image signal source compression coding technology (such as MPEG, H264.2), channel transmission coding technology, digital modulation technology (such as: QPSK, QAM, OFDM, VSB, etc.), most of these technologies have become the common wealth of the two major camps of DVB and ATSC.

If China only joins one of the camps and needs to pay tens of billions of yuan to one of the camps every year, then members of the ATSC camp should also pay to the DVB camp, or members of the DVB camp should also pay to the ATSC camp, because the technologies used in the two camps are mostly the same, with only a small part of the difference.

If each member has to pay fees to each patent holder separately, then the existence of these two camps is meaningless. In this case, China certainly does not need to join one of the two camps, but China must pay patent fees to those patent holders separately. At present, there are more than 1,300 technical patents in the digital TV standard. Have the relevant technical departments in China discussed the payment issue with these patent holders one by one, and have they known that they need to pay them hundreds of billions of yuan in patent fees every year? In addition, if China's TV products are not exported, do they still need to pay so many patent fees? If the patent holders of more than 1,300 technical patents have not come to China to apply for patents, do Chinese TV users also need to pay so many patent fees?

Secondly, whether it is DVB or ATSC digital TV standards, most of the patent technologies incorporated in them were applied for around 1990, and most of them were applied for before 1990. Most of these patents have expired, and some will expire soon. Moreover, it is impossible for China's digital TV to develop quickly in a few years. In addition, the digital TV standard solutions of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, and Guangdong Academy of Sciences also incorporate a large number of other people's patent technologies. If you need to pay to use DVB or ATSC, then you don't need to pay to use the digital TV standards of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, and Guangdong Academy of Sciences? What kind of logic is this?

From this we can see that no matter whether China's digital technology television standards require payment or not, it is not a glorious thing if it does not undergo a facelift.

In the long run, it is the foreigners who are afraid of the Chinese, not the Chinese who are afraid of the foreigners. One of the reasons is, of course, that China is vast and rich in resources, and the people are not afraid of being bullied by a single person. In China, the powerful groups always have the final say. They are both referees and players, and they can change the rules of the game at any time, or they can play cards that do not follow the rules of the game.

For example, the whole world advocates environmental protection and encourages private bicycles or electric bicycles. However, Guangzhou and Shenzhen can ban the use of all electric bicycles with a notice. The reason is simpler, that is, to facilitate urban traffic management. Then, we can't help but ask, is it for the convenience of management that taxpayers ask him to manage the city? The interpretation of ordinary people is that electric bicycles are not luxury cars, and managers cannot collect management fees.

Another example is the overall translation of digital TV. If you add a set-top box next to your analog TV and pay a few dozen yuan more per month, you can enjoy the joy of digital TV with two remote controls; but the quality of the TV image has not improved at all. It's just that the TV image signal was originally transported in a large truck, but now the goods are broken up first, then transported by bus or taxi, and finally packed back to the original state. Will the image quality be better than before? If you don't want to install it, you can only watch 4 to 6 TV programs. This practice is no different from breaking your glass window first, then helping you replace it with a new one, and finally charging you more money.

leslie

Haha, it seems that the patent issue is still quite complicated

liudong2008lldd

Brothers, it’s time to work hard for a better tomorrow! ! ! !

mdreamj

The landlord said it well, it's thought-provoking