Changan Automobile sent a letter asking Lingbao Automobile to stop using the "Uni" car name. The latter responded: "No written documents have been received."

A few days ago, Jiangsu JimaiNew EnergyVehicle Industry Co., Ltd. (Lingbao Automobile) responded to Changan Automobile's "Announcement Letter on Requesting Immediate Stop of Unfair Competition".Lingbao Auto said the company did not have the unfair competition behavior described by Changan Auto.

Earlier, Changan Automobile believed that Lingbao Automobile 's use of the Uni product name in the advertisement of thenew carlaunch conference was easy to cause confusion and misleading with the Changan UNI series, and asked the former to stop the "infringing" behavior.

(Source: Changan official website)

The description of the "Official Letter on Requesting the Immediate Stop of Unfair Competition" is as follows: Recently, I learned from the Internet that the "Announcement on Requesting Immediately Stop Unfair Competition" signed by Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. Published in the media, because our company has not received the written document so far and cannot judge its authenticity, so this incident is explained through the media:

1. Lingbao Uni means "Lingbao has you", which gathers all U you, transforms it into Lingbao Uni, and can be translated as "unification" in Latin. The original intention of our Lingbao car is to unify everything that has you. , and the intention of Changan UNI is significantly different.2. Our company has announced the name on the Internet at the beginning of this year, and has done related promotions and exposure of the appearance and interior of the model in March. Lingbao Uni is one of our Lingbao model series. Literally both Chinese and English. Therefore, our company has no intention to cling to it subjectively, and there is no unfair competition behavior of unauthorized use of product names similar to UNI.3. The Lingbao Uni produced by our company is positioned as an AOO-class small car. The price of the slightly sweet version is 38,800 yuan, and the price of the super-sweet version is 49,800 yuan. It is obviously different from the Changan UNI series in terms of positioning price and model appearance, so it is objective. It is not easy to confuse the relevant public about the commodity and its origin.

On May 20, Changan Automobile sent an "Official Letter on the Immediate Stop of Unfair Competition" (hereinafter referred to as the "Official Letter") to Jiangsu Jimai New Energy Vehicle Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Jimai New Energy).

(Source: Network)

The specific content of the "Official Letter" is that Lingbao Automobile, a brand of Jimai New Energy, released a series of advertisements for the "Lingbao Automobile Uni Listing Conference". Jimai New Energy immediately stopped the confusing behavior and responded to the situation in writing.

According to Tianyancha information, Jimai New Energy was established on August 22, 2018, and its legal representative is Lu Shouguang.According to the official website of Jimai New Energy, the company is located in Xuzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, with an investment of 2.1 billion yuan to build a production line with anannual output of 50,000new energy vehicles. Energy car rental, sales of automobiles and auto parts, and established a technology research and development system with Xuzhou Research Institute as the core and PACK Research Institute and Wuxi Research Institute as the support.

In fact, the automobile industry, as a typical intellectual property-intensive industry, often suffers from intellectual property competition disputes.

According to the Securities Times, as early as 2016, Jaguar Land Rover accused Jiangling Holdings of its Landwind X7 model for allegedly infringing on the intellectual property rights of its Land Rover Range Rover Evoque model; in 2019, Honda believed that the 2016 Haval H6 upgraded version of Great Wall Motors plagiarized two models. A patent, sued for a claim of 22.14 million yuan.

In 2020, French automaker Citroen sued Sweden-basedelectric carbrand Polestar for allegedly using a Boomerang trademark similar to its own; in 2021, Sichuan Mustang Motor Co., Ltd. filed a lawsuit, suing Ford Motor (China) Co., Ltd.'s sports car Mustang has the same Chinese name as its brand, and claims compensation for economic losses; recently, on January 20 this year, Gaohe Automobile issued a statement on trademark protection, saying that the Renault logo trademark and Gaohe's registered trademark The HiPhi logo mark constitutes an approximation.

On May 9, Changan Automobile issued a voluntary information disclosure announcement on production and sales in April 2022.According to the announcement, Changan Automobile's total vehicle sales in April 2022 will be about 120,000 vehicles, a year-on-year decrease of 42.78%; the cumulative sales this year will be about 770,000 vehicles, a year-on-year decrease of 9.02%.

On April 28, Changan Automobile released its first-quarter performance report. The company achieved operating income of 34.576 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.96%; net profit of 4.536 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 431.45%; basic earnings per share of 0.59 yuan.

According to the monthly data released by the Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the overall sales volume of Changan Automobile in the first quarter was 650,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 1.6%; the sales volume of Changan’s Chinese brand cars in the first quarter was 529,000 units, a growth rate of 1.3%; the sales volume of Chinese brand passenger cars in the first quarter According to statistics, Changan Automobile sold 375,000 vehicles; at the same time, in the field of new energy, Changan Automobile also maintained growth.

On April 27, the 2021 financial report disclosed by Changan Automobile showed that it achieved sales of 2.301 million vehicles last year, a year-on-year increase of 14.8%, and its market share increased by 0.8 percentage points year-on-year; it achieved operating income of 105.142 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.33%; The net profit of shareholders of listed companies was 3.552 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.87%; earnings per share were 0.47 yuan.Among them, the sales volume of Chinese brands Changan exceeded 1.75 million units, a year-on-year increase of 16.7%.The Changan brand of Chinese brand passenger vehicles sold 1.2 million units, a year-on-year increase of 23.1%.Overseas exports exceeded 100,000 units, hitting a new high for three consecutive years.

It is worth mentioning that on May 25, Changan Automobile stated in a recent investor relations event that Huawei is deeply involved in the development of intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, and application systems of products, so as to realize the co-creation of the Avita brand, and cooperate with Changan, Ningde has jointly built the CHN platform, not just a simple supply relationship.At present, more than a thousand people in Huawei's intelligent driving R&D team have been stationed in Chongqing for a long time, working with Avita engineers to jointly develop Avita 11.According to Changan Automobile, Avita is the only brand equipped with Huawei HI (HuaweiInside) full-stack smart car solutions.The Avita 11 is the first model in the industry to be equipped with Huawei's HI full-stack smart car solution as standard.