JUDGMENT

17.11.2022

I.A. 7700/2021 in CS (COMM) 303/2021

[This judgement redacts all figures and details over which confidentiality has been claimed by the parties. They are, therefore shown by way of asterisks (*****)].

1. This judgement adjudicates I.A. 7700/2021, filed by the plaintiff Nokia Technologies (―Nokia‖, hereinafter) against the defendant Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd (―Oppo‖, hereinafter) in CS (Comm) 303/2021.

2. Nokia is the holder of various patents, of which the present dispute primarily concerns itself with three. These are (i) Indian Patent No. 286352 (IN ‘352) titled ―System and Method for Providing AMR-WB DTX Synchronization‖, (ii) Indian Patent No. 269929 (IN ‘929) titled ―Method Providing Multiplexing for Data Non Associated Control Channel‖ and (iii) Indian Patent No. 300066 (IN ‘066) titled ―Additional Modulation Information Signaling for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access‖. According to Nokia, the three suit patents are Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), which are necessary to work the technology for making cellular systems 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G compliant. Inasmuch as the defendant Oppo, in its cellular handsets, employs 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G techno