Xiaomi has released a statement in the wake of the Gree Electric patent infringement lawsuit against the company. Xiaomi responded via its official Weibo page, saying it has not received any environmental appliance-related lawsuits. The company didn’t provide any further statement.
It was previously reported that Gree Electric Appliances Co. Ltd instituted a lawsuit and had gotten judgment in its favor against Xiaomi for infringement on the Xiaomi MIJIA electric fan (reportedly the MIJIA DC Inverter Tower Fan). The judgment sum against Xiaomi was specified as 1.85 million yuan ($254,000). However, the court documents indicated that the defendants were Dongguan Jingdong Lisheng Trading Co. Ltd and Zhejiang Xingyue Electric Co. Ltd.
Gree Electric in its earlier statement, noted that it had received the Supreme People’s Court Intellectual Property Civil Final No. 1123 legal document (2023) issued by the Supreme People’s Court on June 18, 2024. The fallout of the judgment, according to Gree Electric, was that The Xiaomi MIJIA electric fan mentioned in the infringement shall no longer be manufactured and sold. The company, based on the reported judgment, warned all infringing entities to immediately stop producing and selling the infringing products. It concluded that it would take legal measures to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.
It is therefore unclear under what basis is Xiaomi rebutting the Gree Electric claims. The full optics of the verdict will become clear in the coming days. It could be that Xiaomi bought the infringed component from a third party and so, may not be directly liable to the stated judgment.
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