Context: In 2018, a single judge of the Delhi High Court (HC) handed Philips a landmark win, ruling that Indian Patent No. 184753 for a “decoding device” was a standard-essential patent (SEP) for DVD players. The court ordered the Bansals (Mangalam Technology and Bhagirathi Electronics) to pay royalties of $3.175 and later $1.90 per DVD player, plus punitive damages. ip fray covered that decision (February 24, 2025 ip fray article). Philips had argued that its patent was necessary to the DVD Forum’s standard and that any DVD player inevitably infringed it.
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Court and counsel
Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla of the Delhi High Court.
Rajesh Bansal and K.K. Bansal is being represented by Senior Advocate Swathi Sukumar, instructed by S. Santanam Swaminadhan, Naveen Nagarjuna, Ritik Raghuwanshi, Kartik Malhotra, Anindit Mandal, and Shreya Mansi James.
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. is being represented by Anand and Anand’s Pravin Anand, Vaishali R. Mittal, Siddhant Chamola, and Gursimran Singh Narula.