Category Archives: Nikon Patents

Confirmed: Nikon lost the patent lawsuit against Viltrox in China

By [NR] admin | Published: July 29, 2026

I have the full court ruling (all 25 pages are attached at the bottom of this post), and I can now confirm my report from yesterday: Nikon lost the patent lawsuit against Viltrox in China. The documents are in Chinese – here is the AI recap:

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It seems that Nikon lost the patent infringement lawsuit against Viltrox in China

By [NR] admin | Published: July 28, 2026

Several readers have contacted me to report that Nikon’s Chinese Z-mount patent (202010127062.4) was declared fully invalid by CNIPA: I have very limited informtion on this, and no official source, so here is the AI recap based on the tips I received (see previous coverage of the Nikon vs. Viltrox lawsuit): Update/confirmed – Nikon lost […]

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Viltrox filed a patent in China that involves the Nikon Z-mount

By [NR] admin | Published: June 2, 2026

Viltrox filed another patent in China that involves the Nikon Z-mount – here is the interpretation I got from AI translation:

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Nikon has several new design patents, but they are all “secret” and cannot be accessed

By [NR] admin | Published: July 4, 2024

After years of finding interesting information on upcoming cameras and lenses in the latest design patents, Nikon finally found a solution by filing “secret” patents. This probably explains why we have seen only a few Nikon patents in the past few years. Currently, there are four new Nikon design patents that are marked as “secret” […]

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Digimedia Tech patent infringement lawsuit against Nikon thrown out: DigiMedia Tech patent held invalid

By [NR] admin | Published: December 13, 2022

Back in 2020, the patent troll Digimedia Tech sued Nikon (and many other companies) for patent infringement on the following patents: 6,914,635 for “Microminiature Zoom System for Digital Camera” 6,545,706 and 7,715,476 for “System, Method and Article of Manufacture for Tracking a Head of a Camera-Generated Image of a Person.” The impacted cameras were the Nikon Coolpix A1000 and Nikon Coolpix […]

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The number of Nikon patents worrisome shrinking over the years

By [NR] admin | Published: December 6, 2022

The latest trend is that Nikon patent applications are shrinking over the years – here is the data:

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The latest Nikkor Z lens patents from Nikon

By [NR] admin | Published: March 8, 2021

I have been behind on my Nikon patents reporting – my last patent-related blog post is from 2019! Unacceptable! I have over 50 different patents I want to cover on the blog. I will try to catch in the next few weeks. Here is the first batch of 12 Nikkor Z lens patents: NIKKOR Z […]

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