VMI Holland B.V. and Cooper (Kunshan) Tire Co., Ltd. v. Safe-Run Huachen Machinery (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.

When a patentee only files a request to the patent administrative agency to handle a patent infringement dispute against users of the alleged infringing products, which may make uncertain the businesses of the producers or the sellers of these products and disable the producers or the sellers to participate in administrative proceedings to safeguard their rights and interests, it is in the interests of all the parties and is also conducive to saving administrative and judicial resources to make a determination as soon as possible of whether the alleged infringing products fall within the protection of the relevant patent rights. Such request to handle patent infringement disputes can be deemed warnings of patent infringement issued by the patentee(s), and the party failing to participate in the administrative proceedings shall have the right to file a lawsuit for declaration of non-infringement of patent rights.