A long-running dispute over autonomous driving has been settled. Wang Jin, a well-known figure, is involved in the dispute, which has been the subject of separate appeals over competition rules and trade secrets. This kind of incident is not the first time for Wang Jin.

The “first person in autonomous driving” dispute involving two autonomous driving companies has come to an end after 18 months.

Both Wen Yuan Zhixing and China Chi Heng issued a statement today, saying that Wen Yuan Zhixing reached a settlement with China Chi Heng and Wang Jin, and each withdrew all lawsuits against the other company and individual, and will not make any response to past lawsuits and related contents.

The big dispute over trade secrets and competition standards in the autonomous driving industry has finally come to an end.

In 2017, Jingchi founded ➡️ and was hunted down by Baidu

Wang Jin is a prominent figure in the field of autonomous driving and a key figure in this case. And the origin of all, but also to date back to his Baidu period.

In December 2015, Wang Jin co-founded Baidu’s autonomous driving business unit and is known as the “first person in autonomous driving” in China.

  • Wang Jin at the founding ceremony of Baidu’s autonomous driving division

His slogan of “three years of commercial use, five years of mass production, ten years of changing the way of travel” is also talked about by the industry inside and outside.

But the turn is always unexpected.

Two years later, Mr. Wang left Baidu because of a philosophical disagreement and went on to found his own self-driving company, Jingchi Technology, in Silicon Valley.

Chichi technology has developed rapidly: founded in April 2017, it completed closed road driverless test in May, obtained a road test license in California in June and completed the first open road test, and completed the test commute in Silicon Valley during rush hour in September.

On the other hand, Jing Chi raised $30 million in an angel round when it was founded and raised $52 million in A pre-A round in September. Wang also proudly compared His company’s technology to That of Google’s Waymo, and its momentum has outpaced that of its former employer baidu.

  • Jingchi’s driverless car development is known as “Jingchi speed”

This, Baidu unhappy.

In December 2017, Baidu filed a lawsuit against Wang jin for “infringing on trade secrets,” demanding that he stop the infringement and pay 50 million yuan in compensation. It is called the first case of autonomous driving in Korea.

Baidu’s lawsuit alleges that Wang jin was planning the new company before he left, violated his non-competition obligations, poached several Baidu employees, and failed to return printers, computers and other items, causing leaks.

The big guy who quit from Baidu to start a business is no longer a minority, but is sued by Baidu, Wang Jin is the first, which also shows that Baidu attaches great importance to this matter. Wang jin later denied the lawsuit and took Jing Chi back to Guangzhou to settle down in China.

In February 2018, after negative news, Jing Wang abruptly stepped down as CEO of Jingchi, reportedly being dumped by the board but retaining his shares in the company.

More dramatically, soon after, Jingchi Technology into Baidu’s embrace, joining Baidu Apollo open platform, as a partner.

In 2018, China Chi Hang founded ➡️ and was hunted down by Wen Yuan Zhihang

Perhaps Wang Jin himself did not think of, baidu “chase after” this encounter, in the later days will be staged again.

Wang Jin left Jingchi, silence for a period of time, soon was reported to be out of the autopilot river’s lake, founded a “Chinese” word company.

In June 2018, the self-driving company Chi Heng emerged, wang Jin was hidden in the second line, and then appeared as the company’s CEO.

  • Wang Jin attended the event as CEO of Chi Heng

The new company is moving directly into L4 level research on autonomous driving, and recently announced the completion of a multi-billion dollar angel round of funding.

In October 2018, After senior personnel changes, Jingchi Technology completed A round of financing and changed its name to Wenyuan Zhixing, but it did not “let go” Wang Jin.

In November 2018, Wen Yuanzhixing filed a lawsuit against Zhongzhixing, Wang Jin and Huang Kun in the U.S. District Court for Northern California, claiming that they stole trade secrets from Wen on autonomous driving technology, and seeking compensation of 249 million U.S. dollars.

  • A screenshot of the indictment initiated by Wen Yuan Zhixing

In January 2019, Wen filed a similar lawsuit in the Guangdong Provincial High People’s Court, asking the defendant to stop the infringement and pay 100 million yuan in compensation.

Mr Wen noted that Mr Huang had used the code of his former employer, Mr Wen, and poached some of his employees when developing driverless cars at CiHK.

Wang Jin was involved because he failed to comply with the agreement he signed after leaving the company, defaming Wen Yuanzhixing and blocking his financing.

In January 2019, a California District court issued a temporary injunction requiring Chi Hong to hand over codes and materials and identify the person who obtained the trade secrets.

At this point, the chi line and Wang Jin can not sit still, have given a counterattack.

In December 2019, CiHENG countersued Wenyuan Zhixing in China, demanding a relevant source code comparison to prove that it did not infringe trade secrets and accusing Wenyuan Zhixing of reputation infringement.

In January 2020, Wang Jin launched a lawsuit against Wenyuan Zhixing in a Cayman court in his own name, demanding the liquidation of the former company Wenyuan Zhixing on the grounds that his shareholders’ rights had been infringed.

He noted that he was still holding 39 per cent when he was forced out of the company in February 2018, but that it was eventually diluted to 3 per cent.

After three months, when things were about to turn rashomon out of control, it suddenly came to an end.

On May 11, 2020, each issued a statement settling the feud, dropping the lawsuit and not pursuing the previous lawsuit.

  • China Chi Heng wechat released a settlement statement with the same content

Disputes are repeated, so are settlements

In the five years since he left Baidu, wang Jin has been receiving lawsuits from two companies he worked for. What happened later was a repeat of similar situations when Baidu left.

Baidu’s lawsuit against Wang Jin was settled only a few months ago.

In February 2020, Chi Heng issued a statement saying that baidu had withdrawn its lawsuit against Wang Jin, the current CEO of Chi Heng, for infringement of trade secrets, according to a civil ruling issued by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court.

But Wang Jin’s micro blog, still stay in that day, it reads: clear from the turbidity of the turbidity, do not forget the original purpose.