{"id":70022,"date":"2020-12-07T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=70022"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T05:25:30","slug":"philips-xiaomi-delhi-high-court-intellectual-property-india-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/philips-xiaomi-delhi-high-court-intellectual-property-india-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Philips and Xiaomi face off in Delhi High Court, India and USA sign MoU to strengthen intellectual property cooperation and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s Patent News \u2013 Philips institutes lawsuit for patent infringement against Xiaomi Inc.; REC Group files patent infringement lawsuit against Hanwha Q Cells; China\u2019s Standing Committee of the NPC to review SPC\u2019s proposal to establish China\u2019s 4th<\/sup> Intellectual Property Court; India and USA sign MoU to strengthen intellectual property cooperation and other news updates.<\/span><\/p>\n

PATENT INFRINGEMENT NEWS UPDATES<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Philips institutes lawsuit for patent infringement against Xiaomi Inc. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Koninklijke Philips has filed a lawsuit for patent infringement against Xiaomi in the High Court of Delhi. The Dutch company has alleged the Chinese smartphone company of using its Universal Mobile Telecommunication Service (UMTS)\u00a0technology. Philips has asked the High Court to restrain Xiaomi from \u201cassembling, selling of phones through any of the online-commerce platforms and\/or retail chains in the subcontinent.\u201d It has also asked the Central Board of Exercise and Customs to stop all imports of Xiaomi\u2019s cellphones to India.<\/span><\/p>\n

REC Group files patent infringement lawsuit against Hanwha Q Cells<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On\u00a0November 30th<\/sup> 2020, REC Group filed a patent infringement suit against Hanwha Solutions Corporation and Hanwha Q CELLS\u00a0USA\u00a0Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of\u00a0Delaware. The Chief Technology Officer of REC said that the Group filed the patent infringement lawsuit to protect its intellectual property rights and encourage innovation in the solar energy industry. He also said \u201cAs a global pioneering solar energy company we champion intellectual property rights and fair competition. This also means that we will rigorously defend our rights when they are being violated.”<\/span><\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL PATENTS AND DESIGNS NEWS UPDATES<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

China\u2019s Standing Committee of the NPC to review SPC\u2019s proposal to establish China\u2019s 4th<\/sup> Intellectual Property Court<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of the People’s Republic of China\u00a0will be reviewing the proposal put forth by the Supreme People\u2019s Courts to establish China\u2019s 4th<\/sup> Intellectual Property Court called Hainan Free Trade Port Intellectual Property Court.<\/span><\/p>\n

India and USA sign MoU to strengthen intellectual property cooperation <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On 2nd<\/sup> December 2020, India and USA signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen intellectual property cooperation between the two countries. The MoU was virtually executed by the Secretary of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra and the Director of USPTO, Andrei Iancu. The MoU is expected to facilitate a path for dissemination of IP knowledge between R&D organizations, Universities, SME\u2019s and the public by offering a variety of training programs and outreach activities. It is also expected to offer opportunities to experts in the field of IP. According to reports, the patent offices will now frame a plan of action to implement the terms of the Agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Japan Patent Attorneys\u2019 Association (JPAA) holds virtual seminar on the Registered Community Design (RCD) with EUIPO<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Japan Patent Attorneys\u2019 Association (JPAA) organized a seminar on the Registered Community Design (RCD) for Japanese users on 3rd<\/sup> December 2020. Panelists from EUIPO participated in the virtual seminar. As explained on the official EUIPO website, the seminar covered topics such as RCD proceedings like \u2013 filings, registrations, design invalidity proceedings and design protection. The EUIPO also described the Common Practice for Assessing Disclosure of Designs on the Internet and presented demos of tools such as – DesignView and DesignClass, developed by the European Union Intellectual Property Network (EUIPN).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored and compiled by Vibha Amarnath<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Philips has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Xiaomi in the Delhi High Court, seeking to limit Xiaomi\u2019s activities in India. The post also covers the India-USA MoU for intellectual property cooperation and other international IP updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[9314,486,11128,5,16,841,11129,3121],"class_list":["post-70022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-patents","tag-china-ip-court","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-india-usa-mou","tag-intellectual-property","tag-patent-infringement-2","tag-philips","tag-rec-group","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141360,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70022\/revisions\/141360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}