According to news on July 8th, in an IAM released yesterday by James Ward of Haseltine Lake Kempner on the “In-depth Analysis Report on EPO (European Patent Office) Objection Documents in 2020”, it was shown that it had been with OPPO in 2018. Nokia, which signed the “Global 4G Patent Cross-licensing Agreement” in November, recently officially launched a patent infringement lawsuit against OPPO worldwide.
According to outside speculation, the patent infringement litigation by NOKIA against OPPO may be related to 5G patents, and the fuse may be the high 5G patent fees that NOKIA has implemented since 2018. According to relevant information, NOKIA announced the 5G patent fee standard in 2018: each 5G mobile phone using its patent should pay NOKIA a patent fee of 3 euros. Today, this price is still criticized by many domestic manufacturers.
Before the deadline, OPPO did not respond to this matter. However, OPPO has publicly stated on many occasions: OPPO respects intellectual property rights, but also clearly opposes excessive patent fees. Based on NOKIA’s patent infringement lawsuit against OPPO, it is not ruled out that it wants to pressure OPPO to reach a 5G patent license between the two as soon as possible, so as to collect patent fees.
The author understands that this is not the first time that NOKIA has initiated a “patent infringement lawsuit” against a mobile phone manufacturer. As early as 2019, NOKIA initiated a patent lawsuit against Lenovo worldwide, and the two parties finally reached a settlement in April 2021. Lenovo and NOKIA signed a license agreement and paid a license fee to NOKIA. It’s really hard not to think too much about whether you want to “repeat the old tricks” now.Buy cheap mobile phone batteries on oriccabattery.co.uk!