In its plea, Philips has sought restraint towards manufacturing or assembling, importing, promoting, providing on the market, and promoting, together with by its and third-party web sites, sure smartphones. The corporate additionally seeks to maneuver the courtroom towards any future units or fashions that embody Common Cell Telecommunications Service (UMTS) enhancement (HSPA, HSPA+) and LTE applied sciences that lead to infringement of Philips’ patents.
In an order handed on November 27, the Delhi Excessive Courtroom directed Xiaomi and different defendants to take care of an quantity of Rs. 1,000 crores of their financial institution accounts which might be being operated in India. The courtroom order reads, “…the defendants shall preserve of their financial institution accounts operated in India an quantity of Rs. 1,000 crores. The mentioned assertion is taken on file. It’s made clear that the defendants are sure by the assertion given by their counsel. The defendants shall file the main points of the financial institution accounts operated in India the place the quantity of Rs. 1,000 crores is being maintained, on or earlier than December 2, 2020.”
Philips additionally sought the granting of an ad-interim order of injunction that directs the Central Board of Excise and Customs to difficulty needed directions to customized authorities in each Indian port, together with airports, to limit import of Xiaomi handsets, together with the fashions laid out in its software.
The courtroom order additionally directed that the reply ought to be filed inside 4 weeks. It added, “Rejoinder thereto, if any, be filed inside two weeks thereafter.” The following listening to will happen on January 18, 2021.
