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[Basic Facts]

Foreign [REDACTED] company is the owner of six standard essential patents related to broadband voice signal processing. It claims that the mobile phones produced and sold by the Chongqing [REDACTED] technology company and the Shenzhen [REDACTED] technology company fall within the scope of protection of its patents, constituting patent infringement. The foreign [REDACTED] company filed lawsuits in two places regarding the six patents: it sued Chongqing [REDACTED] technology company and Taijiang [REDACTED] equipment store to the Intermediate People's Court of Fuzhou, Fujian, demanding that Chongqing [REDACTED] technology company compensate it for economic losses and reasonable expenses for rights protection amounting to 70.6 million yuan; it also sued Shenzhen [REDACTED] technology company and a certain trading company in Nanjing to the Higher People's Court of Jiangsu, demanding that Shenzhen [REDACTED] technology company compensate it for economic losses and reasonable expenses for rights protection amounting to 18.6 million yuan. The six patents involved in this case are the same as those in the six cases of the foreign [REDACTED] company's lawsuit against the Guangdong [REDACTED] technology company for infringement of invention patents, which were judged by the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court in 2023 (hereinafter referred to as the "previous six cases"). The first instance courts both referred to the previous six cases judged by the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court and respectively ruled that the Shenzhen [REDACTED] technology company and the Chongqing [REDACTED] technology company should compensate the foreign [READCTED] company for economic losses and reasonable expenses for rights protection. The parties were dissatisfied and appealed. After more than three months of patient mediation and repeated communication by the second instance collegial panel of the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court, the two parties reached a global one-off settlement, resolving all existing and potential disputes. Based on the rate determined in the previous six cases, they reached an agreement on the settlement amount for the two cases. After receiving the mediation document issued by the second instance court, both the Chongqing [REDACTED] technology company and the Shenzhen [REDACTED] technology company fulfilled the settlement agreement within the agreed period.

[Significance]

First, fully utilize mediation to resolve foreign-related disputes. The collegial panel accurately perceives and responds to the core concerns and potential worries of the parties, guiding all parties to jointly examine the overall picture behind the dispute, and seeking win-win solutions rather than zero-sum games. Second, fully utilize existing precedents to promote mediation through adjudication. The collegial panel explains the legal principles and judgment rules to the parties, bidirectionally alerts them to the opportunities and risks in litigation, and guides them to form reasonable expectations of the litigation outcome to promote a shift from "resolute confrontation" to "rational negotiation". Third, both "treat existing diseases" and "prevent potential ones". With a global perspective, guide the parties to go beyond a single dispute, and through strategic negotiation, seek overall and fundamental solutions to existing and potential disputes worldwide.