NEW DELHI: OnePlus One smartphone users will be happy to hear that the legal proceedings against it have been resolved and the cases have been withdrawn by Micromax through mutual consent.
The legal battle against Micromax lasted for five months which started after Yu, a new company launched by Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma signed an exclusive contract with Cyanogen for using its operating system.
“The month of December last year was a momentous occasion for the OnePlus family. We launched our flagship phone, the “OnePlus One” much to the delight of our consumers here in India. And then we unexpectedly got hit by a legal snag! For reasons that were made public earlier, we had to take a legal recourse to protect our rights in light of the proceedings initiated by Micromax,” said Vikas Agarwal, General Manager India, OnePlus in a statement.
OnePlus sales were stopped in India after Micromax alleged that it was infringing the exclusive rights of Micromax to use Cyanogen software, a specialised form of Android operating system (OS), and trademark.
Cyanogen, which had a global non-exclusive agreement with OnePlus for the use of its software in 16 nations, excluding China, had said in view of its recent contract with Micromax that it can no longer provide upgrades or enhancement to the OnePlus handsets sold in India.
The US company, which had entered into an agreement with Micromax in September, 2014 granting exclusive use of Cyanogen software and trademark in South Asia, had said that this arrangement superseded the one with Shenzhen.
“Five months hence, we are happy to confirm today that all legal proceedings have been resolved and the cases have been withdrawn through mutual consent. We hate donning suits and ties anyways. To make things sweeter, we would like to re-assure our customers and fans in India that our flagship phone, the “OnePlus One” will continue to receive OTA updates from Cyanogen in-line with our users in markets around the world,” said Agarwal.
