小米获得2500多项专利

 BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese smartphone maker¹ Xiaomi has secured 2,500 patents from Microsoft through a patent transfer and cross-licensing deal, a Xiaomi senior executive said in Beijing on Wednesday.

As part of the deal with Microsoft, the Beijing smartphone maker bought 1,500 patents from Microsoft and secured the rights to use another 1,000 through cross-licensing, according to Wang Xiang, a senior vice² president of Xiaomi.

The patents focus on areas such as wireless³ communication, cloud computing⁴, big data and multimedia⁵, Wang said.

China Focus: Xiaomi gets 2,500 patents from Microsoft in transfer, cross-licensing deal

Through the cross-licensing, Xiaomi also allowed Microsoft to use some of its patents such as multimedia, camera, phone design, operating system and video, Wang said.

Wang declined to disclose the amount Xiaomi has paid to secure these patents.

The patents will help Xiaomi steer⁶ away from potential patent dispute lawsuits⁸, especially overseas. In 2014, Ericsson filed a lawsuit⁷ to a court in India, claiming that Xiaomi had infringed⁹ its wireless technology patents.

While China's home-grown smartphone makers¹⁰ are chipping away at the dominance of Apple and Samsung in China, leading players such as Xiaomi and Huawei are building up their patent warchest to take on overseas competitors in emerging and developed markets.

In a sign of Chinese smartphone makers' growing clout¹¹ in the global patent battle, Huawei filed lawsuits last week to courts in both China and the United States against Samsung for alleged¹² patent infringement¹³.

According to tech consultancy Strategy Analytics, Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi rank as the top three smartphone vendors¹⁴ by shipments in the first quarter this year in China. Globally, Samsung and Apple retained their top two positions in sales during the same period, but are ceding¹⁵ market share to Chinese rivals, according to tech consultancy Gartner.

Under the deal with Microsoft, Xiaomi will begin shipping¹⁶ its mobile phones pre-installed with Microsoft's Office app suite¹⁷ and Skype in September.

Xiaomi's co-founder Lei Jun also sits on the board of Kingsoft, which developed the WPS Office suite similar to Microsoft's. Wang said Microsoft's offering will present more options for users, especially to overseas consumers who are more familiar with the Office suite. Office will be free of charge for Xiaomi users.

According to Wang, Xiaomi applied¹⁸ for 3,700 patents in China and other countries in 2015, up from 2,000 in 2014.

1 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

2 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

3 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

4 computing   

n.计算

参考例句：

• to work in computing 从事信息处理
• Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代（约1980年），他们就创办了软件公司。

5 multimedia   

adj.多种手段的，多媒体的；n.多媒体

参考例句：

• Multimedia is the combination of computer and video technology.多媒体是计算机和视频技术的结合。
• Adam raised the issue of multimedia applications and much useful discussion ensued.亚当提出了多媒体应用的问题，从而引发了许多有益的讨论。

6 steer   

vt.驾驶，为…操舵；引导；vi.驾驶

参考例句：

• If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
• It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。

7 lawsuit   

n.诉讼，控诉

参考例句：

• They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
• He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。

8 lawsuits   

n.诉讼( lawsuit的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Lawsuits involving property rights and farming and grazing rights increased markedly. 涉及财产权，耕作与放牧权的诉讼案件显著地增加。 来自辞典例句
• I've lost and won more lawsuits than any man in England. 全英国的人算我官司打得最多，赢的也多，输的也多。 来自辞典例句

9 infringed   

v.违反（规章等）( infringe的过去式和过去分词 )；侵犯（某人的权利）；侵害（某人的自由、权益等）

参考例句：

• Wherever the troops went, they never infringed on the people's interests. 大军过处，秋毫无犯。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He was arrested on a charge of having infringed the Election Law. 他因被指控触犯选举法而被拘捕。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

10 makers   

n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）

参考例句：

• The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
• The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 clout   

n.用手猛击；权力，影响力

参考例句：

• The queen may have privilege but she has no real political clout.女王有特权，但无真正的政治影响力。
• He gave the little boy a clout on the head.他在那小男孩的头部打了一下。

12 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

13 infringement   

n.违反；侵权

参考例句：

• Infringement of this regulation would automatically rule you out of the championship.违背这一规则会被自动取消参加锦标赛的资格。
• The committee ruled that the US ban constituted an infringement of free trade.委员会裁定美国的禁令对自由贸易构成了侵犯

14 vendors   

n.摊贩( vendor的名词复数 )；小贩；（房屋等的）卖主；卖方

参考例句：

• The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
• At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时，界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

15 ceding   

v.让给，割让，放弃( cede的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He was ceding line but more slowly all the time. 他正在放出钓索，然而越来越慢了。 来自英汉文学 - 老人与海
• Settlement would require ceding some Egyptian territory. 解决办法将要求埃及让出一些领土。 来自辞典例句

16 shipping   

n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）

参考例句：

• We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
• There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。

17 suite   

n.一套(家具)；套房；随从人员

参考例句：

• She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
• That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。

18 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。