Ericsson mobile phones are banned in India in response to millet millet three years, never respond SEP standard patent

Ericsson 12 日 Supreme Court of India against the ban on sale of millet phone to make a statement, pointing out that millet will need to pay for someone else's R & D results and reasonable licensing fees, millet has not responded Ericsson requirement is unfair, unreasonable, these are standards necessary Patents (SEP), applies to "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" principle (FRAND).

The so-called FRAND patents principle means that this is the phone's core patents, but Ericsson will need at a reasonable price authorized to give any one company, part of the standard essential patents (SEP) that almost all mobile phone manufacturers will be involved, but refused to pay the standard necessary millet Patents (SEP) or FRAND patents related fee is very serious, so India will be an order of the High Court to prohibit the sale of millet phone.

According to Ericsson noted that millet in the past three years has refused to pay patent licensing products in line with GSM, EDGE and UMTS / WCDMA standard, which is a huge investment in R & D and Ericsson income at a reasonable price granted to any vendor, has refused to respond because of millet Ericsson request permission to use intellectual property rights, and therefore may not have been in the square to take legal action against the millet.

Ericsson said that the current infringement proceedings are, and look forward to millet respects the intellectual product, for both sides to reach a fair and reasonable knot storm, just as trade and other authorized persons under the same conditions, so that Ericsson can continue to invest in research and development of new ideas, new standards and a new platform to promote industrial development.

Millet CEO Lei Jun has boasted, to make millet phone in five to ten years to become the world's highest market share of mobile phone manufacturers, based on non-payment of standard essential patents (SEP) to count?