Category: Huawei
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Huawei’s strategic planning head Emil Zhang on upping pool participation in “critical” verticals
Huawei believes patent pools, such as Sisvel’s point-of-sale patent programme, will fix all the legal uncertainty in critical, fragmented technology verticals, the company’s Head of Strategic Planning & Key Projects Department told ip fray in an exclusive interview.
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Sisvel announces new 2G-5G SEP pool for point-of-sale terminals with Huawei, Nokia, LG as founding licensors: another IoT category
The three founding licensors hold many cellular SEPs. Nokia had already made significant headway with bilateral licensing in this vertical.
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Huawei reports 165K active granted patents, 260 license agreements; spends $28B/year on R&D (last decade: $200B); 54% of workforce is in R&D
Huawei’s 2025 annual report is out and it shows the company’s relentless focus on R&D.
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Munich court enjoins Deutsche Telekom’s high-speed fixed-line offering, lets Broadcom, Nokia, Huawei (but not Adtran) off the hook
In a differentiated reasoning, the Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber explained in open court that only Deutsche Telekom’s use of Adtran products, but not that of Huawei and Nokia products, infringed the patent-in-suit.
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Huawei expands Disney HEVC patent infringement campaign to UPC
Huawei has recently filed a second suit against Disney for infringing one of its HEVC patents, this time in the Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local Division.
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Honor becomes latest Via Licensing Alliance AAC patent pool licensee
Via Licensing Alliance has announced that Chinese device maker Honor has taken a license to its Advanced Audio Coding patent pool, taking the pool’s penetration of the mobile market to 80%.
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Huawei first SEP holder to get UK interim-license ruling: TP-Link to make non-refundable, upwards-adjustable $12M payment; plus refundable payment on top; no escrow
So far it used to be the implementers, or net licensees, who sought UK interim-license declarations. Huawei v. TP-Link is different. Almost historic.
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Latest Patently rankings: Huawei leads in cellular and WiFi 6; LG overtakes Samsung in 5G; Qualcomm #2 in cellular, #4 in WiFi 6; Ericsson, Nokia remain strong
Patent data and analytics service Patently just released its updated cellular rankings and its new WiFi 5 and 6 rankings.
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Brazilian PIs and bad-faith litigation sanctions hit Hisense; newly discovered European video lawsuits against Hisense, Disney, Rakuten, DAZN
Preliminary injunctions, a fine for bad-faith litigation, multiple new video patent lawsuits in the Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court: the heat is on.