Analysis on Intellectual Property Litigations and Countermeasures of Satellite Navigation Enterprises

At present, China's BDS has entered a new era of global networking, and the application industry has shown a rapid development trend. With the rapid development of BDS' global system construction and industrial development, Beidou's R&D and innovation activities increasing fast, international exchanges are becoming more frequent. As a technology highly concentrated industry, satellite navigation related companies will encounter a variety of IP litigations in this process. Enterprises face high IP risks in daily operations, international exchanges and corporate IPO. It is essential for the enterprises to pay attention in advance and respond appropriately. This paper searches the typical cases of IP lawsuits in satellite navigation enterprises, and analyses the problems that satellite navigation enterprises reflected in patent litigation, trademark litigation, software copyright litigation, trade secret litigation and IPO process. In combination with IP regulations and domestic & foreign litigation practices, strategies such as strengthen core patent R&D applications, attach importance to product trademarks and copyright rights, improve corporate IP management, attach importance to IP due diligence of core patents, apply overseas IP rights in advance, and explore ways to establish IP insurance system are listed. Thus, Satellite navigation enterprises can attach importance to and properly solve various IP issues, which enable IPR to safeguard the long-term development of satellite navigation enterprises.