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Court dismisses local firm's appeal against Apple Inc over infringement

By Ma Yue | April 22, 2016, Friday | Online Edition

A LOCAL firm’s appeal against Apple Inc of infringement with its Siri application was recently dismissed by Shanghai No. 1 People’s Intermediate Court.

Shanghai Zhizhen Internet Technology Co insisted that Apple’s Siri, which was introduced in 2012 together with iPhone4S, was similar to an intelligent voice-activated system “Xiao i Robot” that the company applied for patent rights back in 2004. Shanghai No. 1 People’s Intermediate Court accepted the case in September, 2012, which had been heard four times between July, 2013 and October, 2014, during which Apple Inc applied to China’s State Intellectual Property Office to approve the effectiveness of Zhizhen’s patent license over the voice-activated system.

The intellectual property office first announced the patent license effective in September, 2013, but Apple refused to accept the result and appeal to Beijing Supreme People’s Court. The Beijing court announced on April 21, 2015, that Zhizhen’s patent right over the “intelligent voice-activated system” was found to be ineffective due to “technical defect.”

Shanghai No. 1 People’s Intermediate Court therefore rejected Zhizhen’s accuse of Apple’s infringement.

Zhizhen told the court in earlier hearing that the company got the patent license from China’s State Intellectual Property Office much before Apple came up with its own Siri application, which fell within the scope of patent protection.

However, Apple rejected the argument, insisting that “Siri has only one US-based server and its corresponding database, totally different from Xiao i Robot, which has three servers for queries, artificial intelligence and games.”

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