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To: Cooters who wrote (2279)	8/20/2000 12:12:15 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197207

China patent holders sue Motorola, Ericsson BEIJING, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Two Chinese inventors have accused mobile phone giants Motorola (NYSE:MOT - news) and Ericsson of patent infringement and are suing in a Beijing court, a state newspaper reported on Sunday. Inventors Hu Xuanhua and Hu Bin said the companies were illegally using their technology for entering Chinese characters into handsets, the China Daily Business Weekly said. They want U.S.-based Motorola and Sweden's Ericsson to pay $1.2 million and $602,000 in ``temporary compensation'', respectively, and to stop selling phones that contain the technology, the newspaper said. Motorola spokesman Michael Ning acknowledged the company was being sued for intellectual property rights infringement. ``We have been notified of a lawsuit against us,'' Ning said. ``We are thoroughly investigating the allegations. Until we have the results, I have no additional information to provide.'' Ericsson spokeswoman Tu Min said the company had been informed by the Beijing Higher People's Court of the lawsuit on Thursday, and its legal department was investigating. ``Ericsson is paying close attention to this issue,'' she said. ``Respecting and protecting intellectual property rights is a tradition for us.'' Motorola has the second biggest market share in China for mobile phone sales, while Ericsson is number three. Nokia of Finland has the biggest market share. The inventors have extended rights to use the patent exclusively to a Chinese company, Dalian Hanpu Application Technology Corp, the China Daily Business Weekly said. The companies named in the suit include: Motorola Electronics Co Ltd (China), Ericsson (China) Co Ltd, Beijing Ericsson Mobile Telecommmunications Co Ltd, as well as a department store accused of selling the phones, Beijing Lufthansa Shopping Centre, it said. ____ Ibexx PS: They've learned the American game - litigation - quickly, haven't they? But are there enough lawyers on the mainland to sustain this culture?