Infringement! Chinese company asks iPhone to be banned from sale for 10 years

Apple has equipped iPhones with the Siri voice assistant since the iPhone 4S era, and it has been in use ever since.

It is understood that Siri was founded in 2007 and initially focused on text chat services. It was acquired by Apple for US$200 million in 2010. Subsequently, through cooperation with Nuance, the world's largest voice recognition manufacturer, Siri realized voice recognition function.

Although this feature has been used on iPhones for 10 years, it may have been causing infringements, and the infringed party is a Chinese company.

It is reported that recently Xiao-i Robot (Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology Co., Ltd.) filed an application for behavioral preservation (injunction) with the Shanghai High People's Court, requiring Apple to immediately stop patent infringement involving Siri, and stop producing, selling, promising to sell, importing, and using iPhone products that infringe on the ZL200410053749.9 invention patent.

The Shanghai Higher People's Court accepted Xiaoi's application for an injunction yesterday and the case is under trial.

According to reports, the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China had previously issued the Administrative Judgment No. (2017) Supreme People's Court Administrative Judgment No. 34, which ruled in the final instance that Apple Computer Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. lost the case and confirmed the validity of the above-mentioned patent rights of Xiao-i Robot.

In August last year, Xiao-i Robot filed a lawsuit with the Shanghai High People's Court, formally demanding that Apple stop patent infringement and pay RMB 10 billion in compensation.