The court upheld the cancellation of the patent prohibiting the sale of Samsung smartphones in Russia

The Intellectual Property Court upheld the repeal of a patent that prohibited the sale of smartphones Samsung in Russia. About it report “RIA News”.

Patent dispute between Samsung and Swiss Sqwin SA has begun in July 2021. Then Squin SA filed a lawsuit against LLCSamsung electronics rus company and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. for using the invention to pay for the purchase using the client’s phone without the consent of the copyright holder.

The Moscow Arbitration Court, based on expert opinions, concluded that Samsung Pay does indeed use technologies from the Squin SA patent. Court banned Samsung “use of products that include Samsung Rau, namely an offer to sell, another introduction to civil circulation on the territory of the Russian Federation.”

November 2021 Samsung applied to Rospatent and challenged a ban on the sale of a number of smartphones with Samsung Pay.

Samsung Pay works on the company’s smartphones that have an NFC chip. Due to the sanctions imposed by the US and the EU, only cards of non-sanctioned banks can be added to the system. In particular, smartphones officially imported into Russia still work with MIR payment system cards. Since Samsung phones run Android, you can install the Mir Pay utility from NSPK JSC and pay for purchases with your phone, even if it was imported through the parallel import mechanism.