DUAL SIM MOBILE PHONES RESTRICTED IN INDIA !

dual-sim-phone1On a plea registered by electronics engineer Somasundaram Ramkumar, Madras High Court has banned mobile phone makers including Samsung, Mirc Electronics and Spice Mobile and various retailers such as Ebay India and Rediff.com from making or selling cell phones having multiple SIM holding.

Mr. Ramkumar, who claims to hold patented rights over the technology used to create such handsets, had accused few handset manufacturers and retailers of breaching his patent for multiple SIM handsets.Ramkumar an electronics engineer holds Indian patent (No.214388) for plurality of SIM cards in a single mobile phone in addition to plurality of bluetooth devices in headphone and earphone jacks.On the basis of the plea filed, Ramkumar’s lawyer D Ferdinand said, “Justice Jaypaul has issued an injunction whereby Samsung Electronics,  Mirc Electronics and  Spice Mobile were restrained from manufacturing multiple SIM holding mobile phones.”In view of the Intellectual Property Rights (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules 2007 to defend the petitioner’s legal rights, Chennai custom’s functionaries in different cities have already detained import consignments of mobile phones with multiple SIM cards.On hearing the development, Ramkumar said, “This is my first step in establishing my right as a patent holder.”

This Article Was Written By: Sanjay Bafna

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  • SUBHRA November 18, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    SENTIMENTS MAKES US GRADUALLY BACKWARD,BE AHEAD MAN!!

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  • KRISHNA November 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm

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  • KRISHNA November 10, 2009 at 3:57 pm

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  • rajagopal August 21, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    hi
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  • ram August 6, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    ramkumar don have any other work ?
    what he will do with patent right, without establishing in proper way ?

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  • manikandan July 28, 2009 at 7:32 am

    Mr.Somasundaram Ramkumar you are late how interest you show that much interest you should show bring the mobile in the market after everything over it is too late saying that you are having the patent.purpose of making things is to get some benefit you make before you could have make lot of money…but now late.At least do some thing now and bring some additional futures with.keep it up.

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  • Abhishek June 27, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    Was Mr.Somasundaram Ramkumar sleeping all the time when chinese mobiles with dual sim technology were being sold. This is the problem with us(Indians) , we patent our inventions but do not have proper approach to the manufacturers to get things manufactured.

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  • Atul March 30, 2009 at 8:57 am

    What does this mean? In future are manufactures not going to make Dual SIM phones?

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