'Going to the Sea' and 'distress' sunshine lighting in the United States

The reporter was informed that a company called Archipelago Lighting Inc (Hereinafter referred to as ALI) On October 13, 2016, US time, in the name of suspected plagiarism, fraud and unfair competition, officially sued sunshine lighting. At present, the transnational lawsuit has been accepted by the Central District Court of California. Just after a patent lawsuit, sunshine lighting once again encountered a transnational patent lawsuit. The reporter was informed that a company called Archipelago Lighting Inc (Hereinafter referred to as ALI) On October 13, 2016, US time, in the name of suspected plagiarism, fraud and unfair competition, officially sued sunshine lighting. At present, the transnational lawsuit has been accepted by the Central District Court of California. According to the indictment, ALI believes that sunshine lighting is a Kichler brand LED product supplied by Lloyd's, suspected of counterfeiting ALI's outer packaging design, and printed the after-sales telephone number into the after-sales telephone number originally belonging to ALI. Zhao Fanghua, the secretary of sunshine lighting, responded that some products have misprinted the after-sales telephone number, but the patent ownership of the product packaging is still open to question. The after-sales phone was printed incorrectly. Public information shows that Lloyd's is the second largest chain of home decor products in the United States, while Kichler is a brand that sells lamps at Lloyd's. ALI and sunshine lighting have agreed to re-supply Kichler's products. ALI said that since August this year, he has received consumer calls one after another, reflecting that Kichler brand LED products produced by ALI have a feeling of numbness and crispness after being connected to the power supply, or the products cannot be used normally. Victor Deng, the head of ALI, said that ALI had previously had a trademark license agreement with Kichler and designed the product packaging for an order, but the latter agreement was stopped, so no ALI-related products entered the market. Victor Deng introduced that ALI later found that the manufacturer of LED products mentioned by consumers is sunshine lighting, while the after-sales phone is printed with ALI's after-sales phone. Yes, the phone number was printed incorrectly. I asked later. It was indeed printed incorrectly. It was ALI's. Zhao Fanghua said that in a batch of products produced by sunshine lighting, the employees did not pay attention to the number of after-sales telephones, which led to the supply of the above products to Lloyd. However, after discovering the problem, sunshine lighting has already modified the after-sales phone, but the one who went out in front has indeed gone out. On August 25, ALI issued a lawyer's letter requesting sunshine lighting to stop all Kichler brand LED products sold in the United States with ALI's after-sales telephone number printed on the outer package. 'Daily Economic News' reporter asked Lloyd's side for verification, but as of press time, no reply was received. Victor Deng said that he had reported the above two questions to Lloyd and Kichler, but the person in charge of Lloyd's procurement told him that he did not know that the phone number was wrong, saying that sunshine lighting told Lloyd, the after-sales phone number printed on the product was purchased from ALI. Zhao Fanghua responded that the specific business matters are not clear. This is what ALI said after communicating with Lloyd and Kichler, but it is not clear how they communicate. Victor Deng said that in order to prevent ALI from carrying the corresponding burden, he decided to sue sunshine lighting and its subsidiaries in the United States, Dallas and other three companies. ALI sued sunshine lighting for further product patent dispute, and also believed that it used the product packaging originally designed by ALI for Kichler. We have the right to design, we have exclusive rights. Victor Deng said that the outer packaging of the product was designed by ALI. After receiving the order from Lloyd, Lloyd allowed ALI to use Kichler's brand to design the outer packaging of the product. Victor Deng recalled that ALI and Kichler signed the trademark license agreement, but Victor Deng failed to provide the reporter with the official trademark license agreement signed by ALI and Kichler. According to the unsigned agreement, ALI is a supplier authorized by Kichler, and ALI needs to bear the cost of outer packaging design at his own expense. On August 30, Wang Junwei, the lawyer of sunshine lighting, replied in the lawyer's letter that sunshine lighting produced and supplied the Kichler brand LED products to Lloyd's and obtained the authorization of the Kichler trademark, the outer package is designed by a company specializing in the design of product outer packaging, and has finally been verified by Kichler. The relevant responsible person of Kichler said that there are more than 50 suppliers of Kichler, and they are not aware of the litigation disputes between ALI and sunshine lighting. The specific situation allows the reporter to contact Kichler's legal personnel. However, the reporter waited for nearly a week, and as of press time, he still did not receive a reply from Kichler legal personnel. Zhao Fanghua said that the total supply involved in this lawsuit was not much, and the operating income realized in the order of sunshine lighting and Lloyd's was estimated to be about 30 million yuan. Zhao Fanghua also believes that sunshine lighting is mainly based on processing and manufacturing abroad. The lawsuit has little impact on the company itself. The lawsuit will not affect the cooperation between sunshine lighting and Kichler and Lloyd. As a private listed enterprise in the domestic lighting industry, the contribution of overseas markets to its performance is very important. According to the semi-annual report of 2016, the main market share of sunshine lighting is concentrated in Europe and the United States, with North America's operating income of 4. 5%. 7. 3 billion yuan, accounting for 22. Zhao Fanghua also said that the current sunshine lighting subsidiary in the United States has received ALI's lawsuit, and the company's headquarters has not received it because of the time difference.