On December 11, 2014, Xiaomi was accused by Ericsson in India of the High Court of Delhi, India, for allegedly infringing 8 patents such as ARM, EDGE, 3G and other related technologies owned by Ericsson.
Ericsson, who is adept at “Patent Defending Rights,” filed a “temporary ban” with the consent of the High Court of Delhi, India, for the first time. The ban includes “prohibiting Xiaomi from selling, promoting, manufacturing and importing products related to the alleged infringement of Ericsson’s patents in the Indian market.” Xiaomi and its local Indian e-commerce partner Flipkart temporarily suspended sales of patented products that Ericsson sued.'
In addition, the court also asked Xiaomi and Flipkart to submit the number of products sold in India as well as the total sales amount. They also sent officials to the India office of Xiaomi to implement relevant resolutions. The court has also issued a notice to the Indian Consumption Tax and Central Customs Committee to ban Xiaomi’s infringing products. Entry.
For a time, Xiaomi's entire line of mobile phone products may not 'enter' the Indian market, and Xiaomi who actively seeks 'internationalization' will undoubtedly become 'take the lead.'
Subsequently, Xiaomi Company took the initiative to 'bleed the blood', and in accordance with the conditions of 'pre-paid 100 INR for each device on the court's deposit', temporarily obtained the continued sales of Qualcomm chipsets. The mobile phones equipped with MediaTek chips are still 'forbidden'. status.
It is reported that the last product introduced in the Indian market, equipped with MediaTek chip Xiaomi smart phone is Redmi Note, it is equipped with MT6592 eight-core SoC.
Now that millet and Ericsson are reconciling in India, Xiaomi may rekindle its relationship with MediaTek in the Indian market.
When he was interviewed by media recently, David Ku, the chief financial officer of MediaTek, revealed that Ericsson's infringement lawsuit has become a thing of the past. Xiaomi can now use MediaTek chips again. At the same time, he pointed out that new products will soon come out.
It is worth mentioning that despite Indian courts restricting the sale of millet phones equipped with MediaTek chips, Xiaomi's performance in the Indian market in recent years is still very encouraging.
At present, Xiaomi’s mobile phone almost monopolizes the online market share of smart phones in India by about 50%, and its monthly sales volume is about 1.5 million units. In the IDC’s first quarter domestic smartphone market ranking published in 2018, Xiaomi shipped 13.2 million units. Ranked fourth in terms of volume, an increase of 41.8% over the same period last year. In addition, in the top-selling list of smart phones in India's online market in February this year, the 'red rice' of the thousand yuan machine market took the top spot with high cost performance.