{"id":1814,"date":"2025-02-20T09:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T09:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:37:34","slug":"nokia-obtains-anti-antisuit-injunctions-in-munich-upc-in-fresh-lawsuits-against-chinese-payment-terminal-maker-sunmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/nokia-obtains-anti-antisuit-injunctions-in-munich-upc-in-fresh-lawsuits-against-chinese-payment-terminal-maker-sunmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia obtains anti-antisuit injunctions in fresh lawsuits against Chinese payment terminal maker SUNMI in UPC, Munich, Mannheim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Context: <\/strong>Nokia has licensing agreements with all major Western manufacturers of point-of-sale payment devices and signed its first agreement with a Chinese terminal maker, PAX Technology, last August (September 23, 2024 <\/a>ip fray<\/a><\/strong> article<\/a>). Previously, Nokia had only sued one (Western) payment terminal maker, Verifone, which they then settled in August (August 14, 2024 <\/a>ip fray<\/a><\/strong> article<\/a>). SUNMI (a Chinese POS vendor) filed an action in the Yunnan Kunming Intermediate Court seeking a global FRAND rate-setting for Nokia’s 2G, 3G, 4G cellular and 802.11 SEP portfolio in January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s new:<\/strong> Nokia has filed two cases in Germany and two cases in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in response to that action. It also requested and has since been granted anti-antisuit injunctions (AASIs) by the Regional Court of Munich and the UPC Local Division in Munich. In a statement today, it emphasized that \u201cthe companies have been in discussions for years and [Nokia] are disappointed that this matter could not be resolved amicably\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Direct impact:<\/strong> This marks the third AASI to be granted by the UPC \u2013 all three of which have been handed down in the Munich Local Division. The first publicly-known AASIs emerged in Huawei v. Netgear at the end of last year (December 23, 2024 <\/a>ip fray<\/a><\/strong> article<\/a>). Meanwhile, last month, it was revealed that Avago (Broadcom) had actually been granted the UPC\u2019s first-ever AASI (January 16, 2025 <\/a>ip fray<\/a><\/strong> article<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wider ramifications:<\/strong> The case could also have a bearing on two sets of current interim license proceedings in the England & Wales Court of Appeal between Amazon and Nokia (February 2, 2025 <\/a>ip fray<\/a><\/strong> article<\/a>) and Lenovo and Ericsson (February 18, 2025 <\/a>ip fray<\/a><\/strong> article<\/a>). Further, it is the second to emerge in the last 24 hours in which a patent owner has sued a Chinese implementer in a court in Germany (and more specifically, Munich). Yesterday, it became known that Avanci licensor Sol IP sued Chinese automaker BYD in the Regional Court of Munich over 4G SEPs (19 February, 2025 <\/a>ip fray<\/a><\/strong> article<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

China-based SUNMI was founded in 2013 as a joint venture between Xiaomi and Ant Group (formerly Ant Financial, Alibaba). Its global headquarters are in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The patents asserted include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n