During the past six years, Shanghai Haier Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. ("Shanghai Haier Integrated" below) and Microchip Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Microchip") chip copyright dispute litigation, and finally get a final decision in the next few days.
Shanghai Higher People's Court upheld the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court's decision, the infringement alleged Shanghai Haier Integrated chip is not satisfied, the United States rejected all appeals microchip.
In 2007, the United States sued microchip that Shanghai Haier Integrated unauthorized copying of data sheet microcode and describe the use and operation of the microcontroller proprietary PIC16CXXX the microcontroller, and Microchip datasheets and microcode in the United States and China are subject to copyright protection.
It is understood that in Shanghai Haier Integrated by Microchip chip microcode copyright infringement claims, both domestic and foreign technology and domestic intellectual property expert authorities were compared to the demonstration, determine the Shanghai Haier Integrated chip hardwired rather than micro-program implement instruction decoding, there is no infringement of Shanghai High Court ultimately upheld the verdict Shanghai Intermediate People's Court of Shanghai Haier Integrated make no infringement.
Shanghai Haier Integrated Haier Group and overseas joint venture company, established in 2000, primarily in research and development and sales of microcontrollers.