HTC patent survival battle started: year 1200 recruiting engineers
Beijing on October 27 morning news, HTC said on Wednesday they have completed this year, the recruitment of 1,000 engineers, and will continue to recruit R & D personnel, the recruitment of engineers who this year will exceed 1,200 people. HTC wants to recruit engineers with the cumulative R & D and patents. Recent industry rumors, in response to patent war, HTC patent actively recruiting engineers and professional legal staff.
late according to HTC 10 websites in Taiwan, the recruitment of a human message, they will hire legal staff as well as a patent engineer. In the context of the current market downturn, technology companies have to implement unpaid leave, the scientific community legal staff also joked that the patent battle strike violently, not only the value showing the number of patents and several hundred times the growth, but also to patents related to human worth gone up .
HTC franchised engineers to handle patent applications, the acquisition, negotiation, litigation and licensing matters, assist in patent proposals and other matters. Law officers need to deal with the global investment acquisition agreement and the actual and expected litigation.
HTC said that they have really increased the legal staff, but can not disclose the size of the relevant departments, patent engineer recruitment program is included in the 1200 expansion of recruitment.
It is understood that, by 2009, HTC relevant personnel of intellectual property and legal departments less than 20 people, more than doubled in recent years, more than 40 people. Market is expected, HTC’s patent war is a war of survival, costs associated with early than $ 10 million, and has recently spread the news of an unlimited budget law.