The Patent Disputes Chamber of the Federal Intellectual Property Service (Rospatent) decided to meet the request of the Apple Rus company to invalidate the patent of businessman Artashes Ikonomov for the utility model (innovative technological solution) – a mobile phone with emergency communications. This was reported by RBC referring to the materials of the court hearing.
The article states that the chamber made this decision “taking into account the expiration of the patent.” [действовал с 2013 года до конца 2023-го] and the parties’ arguments.”
According to the Yandex patent search service, Ikonomov has registered about 35 patents. These include: devices for personal identification, obtaining information, viewing content with comments, switching drivers and taxi customers, and others.
London court in November rejected The lawsuit filed against Apple to block consumer lawyer Justin Guttmann’s claims that iPhone batteries are damaged. The plaintiff group claimed that Apple deliberately concealed the existence of defects in some iPhone models from users and also released software that slowed down the devices.
The lawsuit previously filed against Apple amounted to approximately 1 trillion rubles sent To be evaluated in the UK.