Millet millet case heat up the courts and Ericsson being investigated irregularities
India Delhi High Court on the Ericsson phone patent infringement litigation case hold a pretrial hearing yesterday, in an hours-long process, has not been mentioned previously disputed the basis of patent infringement matters, instead focusing in millet during the ban breaches continue to import and sell built-in mediatek chip mobile phone problems.
In this regard, Ericsson said in a statement sent to Tencent technology, “we learn, built-in millet company mediatek chip for mobile phones sold in the Court injunction still export after India and India markets. We draw attention to the Court to appoint a local Commissioner is responsible for reviewing imported phone India. ”
Tencent technology reported previously mentioned, millet in India currently marketed model is mainly red rice 1S, and red rice Note, which uses a Qualcomm 400 series MSM8628, which uses 6592 chip MTK. According to the Court before the ban, before January 8, millet in India carry Qualcomm chips red 1S intelligent sales, meaning that does not allow it to sell red rice Note carrying MTK chip.
The day after the end of the hearing, Ericsson applied for the leave of the Court, and the appointment of the Commissioner to carry out investigations, and if the Court has released its next hearing will be held on March 18, of court decisions continue to be valid after December 16, 2014.
For violations before the sales ban, millet is then sent to Tencent technology said in a statement, “we learn that Ericsson accused millet through a domain name for the website in India sells non-Qualcomm chip phone. We are here to affirm that, Xiaomishop.com Web site marketing company millet millet products don’t have authorization, had no connection with millet company. ”
It is understood that this site owned and operated by a third party company, rather than the millet in India or any other country in the world authorized dealer. “Xiaomishop.com this an invasion of millet’s trademark rights, we’ve asked them to stop selling millet, also plans to take legal action on the website. “Millet said.
Although this does not address issues of patent infringement, but pretrial hearing centers around every time. Liu Shen-lawyer specializing in intellectual property litigation in the country who expressed Tencent technology related. “Is the role of the hearing before the trial, the two sides need to submit relevant materials to the Court, through the knowledge of material for Division of the court settlement, if settlement cannot be reached, another day in court. If the problem exists during required item-by-item resolved. ”
Judging from the present trend, next hearing mainly to solve the problem will be whether millet is a contravention of the ban before the illegal operations, assigned when the Court will announce the findings of the Commissioner.
In this regard, the Ericsson Tencent technology, “said topic settings for each hearing and court decisions are decided by the judge, is a case decided by the continuously new developments that may arise in the process. ”
Industry analysts noted that communications involving patent infringement lawsuits often evidence is complex, so time will be longer, generally after multiple hearings, mostly result in reconciliation after a final hearing.
As we all know, Apple’s patent lawsuit with Samsung from 2007 onwards, local lawsuit settlement was not until last year. According to this view, millet and Ericsson’s patent dispute would be a protracted legal battle yet?