xioami Ban in india: Full story

Xioami who’s having great run since their first step in India with there ‘high quality low price’ products they have shakenup the market but the company is banned for importing, manufacturing and selling there products in india. The Delhi high court granted an ex parte injunction order against Xioami for allegedly infringing on Ericsson’s Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) on December 8. The decision was taken after Ericsson reports that Xioami has not responded to their previous attempt on the same issue since July. Xioami official India Manu Jain stated that the company has not received any official confirmation regarding the Ban and there legal team is looking at the issue and will reply promptly on that, he also mentioned that the Indian market is very important for Xioami and they do not want to lose such a big market. On 11th December three days after the Ban Xioami’s official website in India was redirecting to a letter from Xioami VP Hugo Barra

Mi fans,
We have been committed to continue our sales of Redmi Note and Redmi 1S devices in India. In the last 2 days alone, we received about 150,000 registrations for Redmi Note on Flipkart and the momentum has been terrific.
However, we have been forced to suspend sales in India until further notice due to an order passed by the Delhi High Court. As a law abiding company, we are investigating the
matter carefully and assessing our legal options. Our sincere apologies to all Indian Mi fans! Please rest assured that we’re doing all we can to revert the situation. We have greatly enjoyed our journey with you in India over the last 5 months and we firmly intend to continue it!
Stay tuned for more information.
Hugo
(on behalf of the Mi India team)

On December 17 the ban was lifted by the Delhi high court from Xioami but the company is only allowed to sell their Qualcomm Soc based devices which was further confirmed by ‘Hugo’ in the same way by posting a letter on Facebook and twitter (below)

Resuming sales in India **
Dear Mi fans,
Last week, we were forced to suspend sales in India due to an order passed by the Delhi High Court. Thanks for the
overwhelming support so many of you have shown to Mi India in response to that! We are happy to announce that the Delhi High Court today issued a ruling in our favor, allowing us to resume sales in India subject to certain terms.
The good news is that Redmi 1S is coming back next week and we’ll be having our next sale on Tuesday, December 23. Registration will open shortly — keep an eye on the Mi India
page for details! We will also be resuming sales of Redmi Note shortly, with the 4G model this time. More details on that very soon, stay tuned!

Hugo
(on behalf of the Mi India team)

Picture from Facebook mi India official page

Since the ban was partly lifted for Xioami the company cannot sell their mediatek phones in India which effected the sales of company’s recent launch Redmi note’s 3G version which cost Rs8999 through their online partner Flipkart and due to the ban flipkart was also not allowed to sell Xioami products on their website and only conducted 2 flash sales. The ban was only lifted for xioami to sell there devices upto first quarter of January 2015 and further decision will be taken after that, it will be intresting to see what will happen to a 5month old company. Will they be allowed to continue their dominance? or they have to pack their bags and return to back to Beijing?