Delhi High Court allows Xiaomi to send back over one lakh unused Redmi Notes

By Gizbot Bureau
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In a relief to Xiaomi Technology, Delhi High Court today allowed it to send back its Redmi Note 3G handsets, whose sale has been banned in India on Ericsson's plea alleging patent violation by the Chinese mobile phone maker.

HC allows Xiaomi to send back over one lakh unused Redmi Notes

A vacation bench of Justice Mukta Gupta permitted Xiaomi to return over one lakh handsets to their point of origin in Hong Kong, after Swedish telecom firm Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson agreed to the arrangement.

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The court directed Xiaomi to maintain an inventory of the handsets, currently lying unused with e-commerce site Flipkart through which the Chinese company sells its phones under an exclusive arrangement.

HC allows Xiaomi to send back over one lakh unused Redmi Notes

Advocate Ajit Warrier, appearing for the Chinese firm, said its phones like Redmi Note 3G, which run on a Mediatek processor, have been prohibited from sale in India by the high court.

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He said the company was only allowed by the court to sell its Qualcomm chipset-based phones and thus, the other variety are lying unused with Flipkart.

HC allows Xiaomi to send back over one lakh unused Redmi Notes

The court on December 16 last year had permitted Xiaomi to sell its Qualcomm chipset-based devices as a 'pro tem' (temporary) measure till the issue of patent infringement was heard and decided by a single-judge bench of the high court.

The single judge had on December 8 restrained Xiaomi and Flipkart from selling in India handsets that run on the technology patented by Ericsson. This was challenged by the Xiaomi, resulting in the December 16, 2014, 'pro tem' order.

The case pertains to standard essential patents used in AMR, 2G, 3G and Edge technologies. Ericsson has alleged infringements of its patents relating to these technologies by Xiaomi.

A Standard Essential Patent is the patent for the core technology essential to create something of a particular technical standard. In this case, mobile phones cannot be made without the GSM, GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA technology, which are patented by Ericsson.

Source: PTI

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