Recently, the core source micro announcement said that the company received compensation for the protection of trade secrets 40 million yuan, the two sides agreed on a total compensation of 60 million yuan, and the subsequent 20 million yuan to meet certain conditions to pay.
According to the company announcement, the company and A company are semiconductor special equipment enterprises, the latter was founded in 2016, by the company's former employees as the main shareholder initiated and founded, its production of glue development equipment is mainly used in compound semiconductor, LED and other small size fields, product types and downstream customers and the company has a certain degree of overlap.
In the course of daily cooperation with customers, the company found that some machines sold by Company A were suspected of violating the company's trade secrets. The company filed a criminal report to Shenyang Public Security Bureau in October 2020 and was accepted in December of that year, and then handed over to the procuratorial organs for review and prosecution after the investigation was completed by the public security organs.
In August 2022, the Shenyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone People's Court of first instance heard the case in private, and up to now, the court has not made a first-instance judgment on the case.
Since its establishment, our company has always regarded independent innovation as the source of driving force to promote the sustainable development of enterprises, and attaches great importance to the protection of relevant intellectual property rights. After the occurrence of the above infringement incidents, our company actively cooperated with the judicial authorities to carry out work and resolutely protected its legitimate rights and interests from infringement.
During the trial of the case, forced by legal deterrence, Company A took the initiative to contact our company and was willing to make cash compensation for its infringement. After negotiation, the two sides reached a Criminal Settlement Agreement.According to the settlement agreement, Company A will voluntarily pay a total of 60 million yuan in cash compensation for its violation of our company's trade secrets, which will be paid in four installments with conditions attached to each phase.
Up to now, Company A has paid a total of 40 million yuan of infringement compensation to the company in the first two periods, and the effective conditions of the above compensation have been reached, and the company has included it in the "non-operating income" account, reflected as "non-recurring profit and loss", accounting for 51.71% of the company's audited net profit of 77.3495 million yuan in 2021. The compensation of the remaining two periods totaling 20 million yuan can be paid only after certain conditions are reached, which is still uncertain.（Source: Shenyang Core Source Microelectronics official website, IPRlearn)
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