With allegations of patent infringement by Sweden-based Ericsson unleashed in courts of UK, Germany and Italy, Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE, in a statement on April 2, denounced Ericsson's lowly hassle against its clients and promised its will to defend legitimate interest not excluding resorting to litigation. On the instant day, ZTE brought actions before SIPO's Patent Reexamination Board to invalidate some of Ericsson's Chinese patents. 

Ericsson, the world's largest mobile network equipment maker, accused ZTE of infringing some of its patents relating to 2G (GSM) and 3G (WCDMA) technologies on the same day and sought injunction against ZTE mobile phone sets featuring the technologies from the three courts and telecom infrastructure equipment from the Germany court.

However, according to the statemen, ZTE sincerely regreted that Ericsson had unilaterally dropped the ongoing negotiations between the two parties.ZTE also claimed that they had been attempting to resolve the dispute peacefully and took the view that reasonable negotiation with the purpose of resolving the disputes was the only way for any vendor to survive in this market.

(China IP News)