A small step in patent reconciliation, the "a big step" of the salt lake lithium lifting industry

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In the era of smartphones and new energy vehicles, the importance of lithium resources is self -evident. The demand for lithium resources and lithium prices in the rapid growth is the direct footnote of the lithium resource industry. It also puts forward higher requirements for the traditional lithium lifting technology in lithium ore.

In this context, people have gradually discovered that it is difficult for lithium ore lithium lifting technology to meet the needs of lithium resources in various industries today. What should I do?

Salt lake lithium lifting technology has embarked on the historical stage.

According to the "Salt Lake Patent" developed by the Qinghai Salt Lake Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, salt lake lithium lifting technology is a process and device that extract battery -grade lithium by brine extraction. This patent can solve the problem of lithium lithium with high magnesium lithium salt lake brine.

It is reported that this technology is suitable for various magnesium lithium -lithium -lithium chloride salt lakes, and compared with traditional adsorption processes, it can save 50%of adsorption agents and project construction investment. It can also be used in the lithium raw lithium. Before the lithium lifting section is mentioned, it may not be restricted by the construction of salt field before the basics and analysis of potassium analysis.

It is precisely because of the advantages of salt lake lithium lifting technology that it has won the Gold Award of the "Meiling Industry Patent Award" issued by the China Membrane Industry Association. It has been unanimously recognized by experts.

However, between two Chinese high -tech enterprises using salt lake lithium technology, there was a dispute between the use of the use of "salt lake patents". What is going on?

Salt Lake lithium "litigation war" attracts attention

As an innovative lithium lifting technology, salt lake lithium lifting obviously has high economic value. It is also because the technology is relatively new, and it will inevitably encounter some twists and turns in the initial application. Similar things appear in two top high -tech companies. On the body.

In August 2018, a legal lawsuit of Qinghai Qidi Qingyuan New Materials Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Jiuwu High -tech Co., Ltd. attracted many people's attention.

It turned out that the two high -tech enterprises had a dispute on the use of "salt lake patents", so they claimed to be tried in the Xining Intermediate People's Court of Qinghai.

Considering that both companies are domestic high -tech enterprises engaged in the research and development, production, sales and service of membrane materials technology, who is obviously not as simple as who is wrong.

According to reports, Qinghai Qidi Qingyuan New Materials Co., Ltd. belongs to Qidi Holdings. It is a high -tech enterprise that focuses on lithium battery raw material lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, lithium chloride and other lithium salt products. Professional technical service provider.

Qinghai Qidi has the ability to design and build and build the comprehensive utilization of salt lake resources. It has established a mature and stable factory operation service team in Qinghai, has a large number of industrialized use cases, and relies on Tsinghua's scientific research power to continue to innovate the development of the salt lake industry. Material technology innovation has contributed its own power.

The strength of Jiangsu Jiuwu Hi -Tech Co., Ltd. is equally powerful.

It has a complete business system, including membrane material production, membrane components and complete sets of equipment manufacturing to providing overall solutions of membrane integration technology. The process of processing has accumulated a large number of film separation technology application experience and customer resources.

At the same time, Jiangsu Jiuwu has also achieved innovative applications of membrane separation technology in the field of resource regeneration of waste acid, waste alkali, waste salt. At present, Jiangsu Jiuwu's products have been sold to more than 40 countries and regions around the world, and have been widely recognized by customers at home and abroad.

Such two high -tech enterprises involve cutting -edge salt lake lithium lifting technology. Such lawsuits are not easy to fight.

In fact, the dispute between the two sides in patent use does have its own truth.

According to reports, a method of separating and enriching lithium in the protection of the "salt lake patent" is a patent category of craft invention. The technology involved in this patent constitutes complicated and mainly involves the technical content of the membrane process segment.

As early as May 2018, Jiuwu, Jiangsu, was authorized by the Qinghai Salt Lake Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and used the "Salt Lake Patent" in the Salt Lake area of ​​Chalhan in Qinghai Province.

Although Qinghai Qidi also uses the na filter device in its independent research and development technology, it is divided into five stages of filtering, and the functions of each section are different and they have not met at the same time. All technical characteristics, so it does not meet the comprehensive coverage principle of patent infringement judgment, and it seems inappropriate to fall into the scope of patent protection.

It is precisely because of the complexity of the use of the use of the first instance of the first instance of the case of the Qinghai Xining Intermediate People's Court, but both parties are not satisfied with the results of the judgment. High -tech enterprises have brought heavy burdens.

So, is there a better solution?

Hand handshake, create a good future of salt lake lithium, a good future

Fortunately, by April this year, the Supreme People's Court came forward to host the mediation process between the two companies, and eventually promoted the handshake of both parties.

The two parties reached a settlement with a settlement of one -sixth of the amount of less than one -fixture of the amount of the amount of the amount of less than the amount of the amount: Qinghai Qidi to ensure the normal production of the third party Qinghai Salt Lake Lanke Lithium Co., Ltd. (formerly Qinghai Salt Lake Buddha Zhao Lanke Lithium Co., Ltd.). Pay and solve the gold to show sincerity; Qinghai Qidi and Jiangsu Jiuwu agreed to the patent validity period, for the "10,000 tons of lithium carbonate device an annual output of 10,000 tons of lithium carbonate device, the patent period There is no controversy in the dispute of reverse osmosis projects; disputes in this case are resolved at one time, and there are no other disputes on the case on the case and do not investigate each other. At the same time, regarding the "salt lake patent" right to use, the validity period of "salt lake patent" will expire on April 30, 2023, and the period of invention patent rights is 20 years from the application date. After that, the project operated by Qinghai Qidi Qingyuan New Materials Co., Ltd. was completed and put into operation.

The dispute between the two sides finally ended in a dispute over the use of patent.

It is worth noting that this time the two companies followed the principle of coordinated development and the principle of combining coordinated development in the mediation process, which has a very good demonstration effect on the healthy development of the entire industry in the future.

With the smooth mediation of patent use disputes, it has solved the solution of lithium -lifting problems in salt lakes in my country, further exerts the technological advantages of the salt lake lithium -lifting industry, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, which is of special significance for the upgrading and development of the lithium resource industry.

In the future, I believe that more high -tech companies like Qinghai Qidi and Jiangsu Jiuwu will promote the upgrading and development of my country's resource industry with industrial innovation and technological innovation. From this perspective, a small step in this patent reconciliation can be described as the "big step" of the salt lake lithium -lifting industry and even many high -tech industries.

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