Pursuant to our last post on this theme, SpicyIP just heard that Micromax, a dual SIM cell phone importer filed a declaratory suit for non infringement before a court in Gurgaon (very close to New Delhi and part of the NCR region). This suit asks the court to declare that Micromax’s imports of dual SIM phones do not infringe Ramkumar’s patent, since they are outside the scope of the claims in his patent. Do any of our readers have more

In several earlier posts, I lamented the fact that some Indian courts are beginning to demonstrate a rather promiscuous propensity to grant “ex-parte” restraining orders (i.e. orders without even hearing the other side) at the drop of a hat in highly technical patent cases. The latest example is the case of Ramkumar, an overzealous patentee who’s claimed much more than what he legitimately invented and squeezed illegitimate royalties out of many dual sim phone importers in the process. Our earlier