Automobile brands have repeatedly fallen into trademark infringement disputes. Changan automobile wrote to Lingbao automobile to stop the infringement.

On May 20th, an official letter from Changan Automobile demanding to stop unfair competition immediately was exposed on the Internet. The contents of the official letter show that the slogan "Uni" used in the series of advertisements of "Lingbao Uni Listing Conference" under Jiangsu McKee New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "McKee New Energy") has constituted unfair competition for the UNI series products of Changan Automobile. Therefore, it is suggested that McKee New Energy immediately stop the above unfair competition behavior from the date of receiving this letter and give a written reply on the handling situation.

Changan Automobile said that the naming scheme of the UNI series products of Changan Automobile was released in September 2065438+2009, and then UNI-T, UNI-K and UNI-V models were listed one after another, and they were widely publicized and invested a lot of money. At present, the UNI series products of Changan Automobile have enjoyed a high reputation in the market, and have a good reputation and market influence. Uni of Lingbao Automobile, a subsidiary of McKee New Energy, highlights the word UNI in the poster, which is enough to make people mistakenly think that it is a UNI series product of Changan Automobile, or a confusing behavior with a specific connection with the UNI series product of Changan Automobile.

According to the data, Lingbao Automobile is a new energy brand under Jiangsu McKee New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., and Lingbao Uni model is a brand new micro electric vehicle under Lingbao Automobile. * * * Two models were launched, with the price range of 38,800 yuan to 49,800 yuan, which were compared with Hong Guang MINIEV, Chery QQ ice cream and other miniature electric vehicles.

As for the UNI series of Changan Automobile, this series is considered as the key product of Changan brand transformation. Up to now, Changan UNI series products * * *, including UNI-T launched on June 2 1, UNI-K launched on March 202 1, and UNI-V launched on March 2 1 this year. Most models in this series are priced at 65438+.

In terms of production and sales, UNI-T sold 68,556 vehicles in the second half of 2020, and 83,665,438+00 vehicles in 2026,5438+0. From March 20021year to February 65438, the cumulative sales volume of UNI-K was 3 1992 vehicles. The latest data shows that the cumulative sales of UNI-T, UNI-K and UNI-V from June to April this year were 18586, 13547 and 1 1380 respectively.

In fact, as a typical intellectual property-intensive industry, the automobile industry, especially the global automobile industry, is at a critical moment of industrial restructuring and technological change, and intellectual property rights can be said to be an indispensable part. In contrast, intellectual property competition disputes often occur in the automobile industry.

As early as 20 16, Jaguar Land Rover Company accused Jiangling Holdings Company of infringing the intellectual property rights of its Land Rover Aurora model. In 20 19, Honda claimed that Great Wall Motor's 20 16 Haval H6 upgraded model copied two patents and sued for 22140,000 yuan.

(Editor Shangguan Menglu)