Delhi High Court sets interesting precedent to still nascent domain of SEP & FRAND in India

The Plaintiff had filed two suits for infringement of their essential DVD video player patent. The component patent in the subject matter of both the suits is the Channel (De)-coding technology used for DVD Video Playback function in a DVD video player. It is claimed that the Plaintiff is the registered proprietor for “Decoding Device for converting a Modulated Signal to a series of M-Bit Information Words”. The invention concerns ‘channel modulation’ which involves a coding step that is performed directly before the storage of the data. Continue reading “Delhi High Court sets interesting precedent to still nascent domain of SEP & FRAND in India”