High Court of Delhi

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ.) v. Best IT World (India) Private Limited (iBall)

MANU/DE/2525/2015

02.09.2015

Intellectual Property Rights

Court restricts iBall from importing mobiles, handsets and other devices

Ericsson was successful in its plaint alleging infringement of its patents by several mobile devices imported by and sold as iBall products. Some of the products tested to be infringing of Ericsson's patents were 'iBall Andi Xotic', 'iBall Cobalt Oomph' and the 'iBall Andi Sparkle'. Ericsson had claimed that these and other devices utilised its patented speech codecs in both 3G and 2G modes. The Court rejected iBall's submission that as it was merely a vendor and imported all its telecommunication devices from China, it was unaware of any infringement and if there was an infringement, it was only 'an innocent infringer'.

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Tags : Mobile patent speech codec

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