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Reporters yesterday in Beijing from the easy to the successful plaintiff of electronic information technology company (hereinafter referred to as "easy company") was informed that the State Intellectual Property Office of Patent Reexamination Board to make a decision a few days ago, rejected the United States, Microsoft on "Zheng patent invalid code" of the application and has April 22 at the "request for review of a decision declaring null and void book" easy service and Microsoft. The reporter saw the decision to write that the Patent Reexamination Board in accordance with China's Patent Law and the "Code Zheng," the actual situation in the review of patent decisions: Microsoft made a ground of invalidity of the patent can not be established to maintain the invention 89108851.2 (Zheng Code) effective patent.

"Zheng code" Miss Zheng Long patent owner, general manager of the company easily Dekang Mr. Blue to the China Youth Daily said, on the Patent Reexamination Board rejected the request of Microsoft was very happy. Microsoft PR China not responsible for his views on the application was rejected, but the head of Microsoft's related to stress once again that Microsoft has always respected the intellectual property rights, only in the framework of the legitimate right to use a third-party intellectual property rights.

April 23, 2007, in United States v. Microsoft, easy to infringement in the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court case. Easy Microsoft Corporation v. United States violated "Zheng code" patents, software copyrights and compilation rights; violations of the font is easy to the right art, software copyright and the compilation copyright. Microsoft in May 28, 2007 a lawyer, the State Intellectual Property Office to the Patent Reexamination Board to submit a claim, "Mr Key," the request of the patent invalid, on the grounds that Mr code "does not have the novelty" and "creative", the patent reexamination request The Committee reviewed and declared "Zheng Code," the patent is invalid. Patent Reexamination Board in December 20, 2007 State Intellectual Property Office in the oral trial, the trial continued over 3 hours.

Zheng Code input method is the "Anglo-Chinese Dictionary," edited by Mr. Zheng Yili and daughter co-invented by Long Zheng, China in 1989 patents. In 1992, in the easy company and Mr. Zheng Yili Zheng-long authorization for the use of the patent, development, research and development, designed in line with national standards of Song, the two sets of Chinese characters in bold font. The two sets of characters have also won the national patent.

According to the "Patent Law" Article 46, paragraph 2, provides that if Microsoft refused to accept the State Intellectual Property Office The Patent Reexamination Board to review the findings of three months in the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court. (reporters only)

January 15, Beijing easily won the bid in electronic information technology company (hereinafter referred to as "easy") to prosecute illegal use of Microsoft Zheng Code input method, intellectual property rights infringement cases related to the Beijing Municipal First Intermediate People's Court in the first trial.