Panasonic accused Oppo and Xiaomi for using its patents without it’s permission, seeks legal action against them in UPC

Japanese manufacturer of electric appliances and consumer electronics products Panasonic has filed seven infringement lawsuits at the Unified Patent Court(UPC) against Oppo and Xiaomi. This is the UPC’s first major case since the court was launched in June as per the official UPC website. Panasonic has accused Oppo and Xiaomi of using its patents in their smartphone without asking and Panasonic not only wants both of the companies to stop using its patents but also to pay for damages.

As of now these cases are being heard at the UPC’s local division in Mannheim and Munich. If we were to go specific, Oppo and Oppo subsidiaries have been accused of infringing four patents. The EP 2 584 854 protects a technology for a ‘channel arrangement method and wireless communication base station device (case ID: ACT_546122/2023), while EP 2 207 270 protects a ‘wireless communication base station apparatus’ (case ID: ACT_545770/2023).EP 2 568 724 covers a ‘radio communication device and radio communication method’ (case ID: ACT_545551/2023) and EP 3 096 315 protects a ‘device and method for execution of Huffman coding’ (case ID: ACT_545604/2023).

Xiaomi and it’s various subsidiaries have been accused in concern with EP 315 (case ID: ACT_545606/2023), EP 724 (case ID: ACT_545615/2023), and EP 270 (case ID: ACT_545817/2023). The patents relate to the 4G standard.

Panasonic is likely to launch such lawsuits in other countries also as Nokia did with Oppo and other related companies for infringing patents.