Yota Devices and PocketBook resolved a patent dispute
Yesterday, RBC announced a preliminary settlement of the patent dispute between Yota Devices and PocketBook.
Earlier, RBC reported a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court of Yota Devices, registered in the British Virgin Islands, to the PocketBook website with a ban on using its trademark, by which it meant a two-screen smartphone. The defendants were Batmore Capital - also from the British Virgin Islands - and the Russian LLC Kanonir. The first site is registered pocketbook-int.com, and the second is engaged in sales of readers with screens based on electronic ink (e-ink). Then the CEO of Yota Devices, Vladislav Martynov, told RBC through the press service that Yota Devices would not demand monetary compensation from the sellers of the PocketBook cover, and the suit is purely “ideological” in nature.
Subsequently, the lawsuit on the illegal use of the trademark was replaced with a lawsuit for infringement of the patent for utility model No. 141707 , and Batmore Capital was excluded from the list of respondents. A patent examination was appointed for the case, the defendant tried to challenge the purpose of the examination on formal grounds, but his appeal was rejected and after the decision to resume the proceedings, the parties announced the conclusion of a settlement agreement, which must be approved at today's court session.
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On the pocketbook-int.com website, before the dispute arose, it was possible to order a PocketBook CoverReader case with an additional e-ink screen embedded in it. The case is designed for Samsung Galaxy S4 - one of the most popular Android-smartphones in the world: since April 2013, for the first six months, about 40 million such devices have been sold in the world.
At the time of this writing, the case for the Samsung Galaxy S4 was offered on this site, but it can be assumed that in the near future it will be on sale again.
This case is notable especially since patent disputes over inventions and utility models are still rare in Russia, and it shows that the most active players on the IT / telecom market are able to use this legal tool to protect their interests. We add that the post of vice-president for intellectual property at Yota Devices is occupied by Dmitry Platonov, who previously headed the IT department at the Skolkovo Intellectual Property Center, and earlier supervised Akronis's patent work.
Earlier, RBC reported a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court of Yota Devices, registered in the British Virgin Islands, to the PocketBook website with a ban on using its trademark, by which it meant a two-screen smartphone. The defendants were Batmore Capital - also from the British Virgin Islands - and the Russian LLC Kanonir. The first site is registered pocketbook-int.com, and the second is engaged in sales of readers with screens based on electronic ink (e-ink). Then the CEO of Yota Devices, Vladislav Martynov, told RBC through the press service that Yota Devices would not demand monetary compensation from the sellers of the PocketBook cover, and the suit is purely “ideological” in nature.
Subsequently, the lawsuit on the illegal use of the trademark was replaced with a lawsuit for infringement of the patent for utility model No. 141707 , and Batmore Capital was excluded from the list of respondents. A patent examination was appointed for the case, the defendant tried to challenge the purpose of the examination on formal grounds, but his appeal was rejected and after the decision to resume the proceedings, the parties announced the conclusion of a settlement agreement, which must be approved at today's court session.
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On the pocketbook-int.com website, before the dispute arose, it was possible to order a PocketBook CoverReader case with an additional e-ink screen embedded in it. The case is designed for Samsung Galaxy S4 - one of the most popular Android-smartphones in the world: since April 2013, for the first six months, about 40 million such devices have been sold in the world.
At the time of this writing, the case for the Samsung Galaxy S4 was offered on this site, but it can be assumed that in the near future it will be on sale again.
This case is notable especially since patent disputes over inventions and utility models are still rare in Russia, and it shows that the most active players on the IT / telecom market are able to use this legal tool to protect their interests. We add that the post of vice-president for intellectual property at Yota Devices is occupied by Dmitry Platonov, who previously headed the IT department at the Skolkovo Intellectual Property Center, and earlier supervised Akronis's patent work.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/288446/
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