Entrepreneur's Greedy Eye Casts At Apple's Pie

Apple Inc. is a company that hardly needs an introduction. Its assortment of iPhones are widely popular in Russia, and Apple holds countless patents to protect its technology.

Entrepreneur Artashes Ikonomov filed and obtained patent No. 141791 in 2013 for a cell phone with an "Emergency Call — SOS" function. Several years later, in 2019, he sued Apple for infringing his patent (Case No. 2-20/2020). His requests were to remove iPhones with emergency call options from the market and destroy them. The claims were dismissed by the court.

In response, Apple attempted to cancel Ikonomov's patent at the Chamber of Patent Disputes, arguing that it did not meet the requirement of novelty but failed, leaving the patent in force.