In May of this year, Huawei, which has always been low-key, sued Samsung patent infringement in China and the United States, and claimed that Samsung infringed on 11 technical patents, including the LTE-standard communication technology; earlier this month, Huawei again filed a lawsuit against Samsung. And asked Samsung to compensate 80 million yuan.
As of now, these two cases still do not have the following.
Of course, for Samsung, which has been on the battlefield and rigged off with Apple for many years, facing Samsung’s turn of attack, Samsung will certainly not choose to sit still and even set up a response team internally to try to file a counterclaim.
Two months later, Samsung seems to be ready. They are counterclaiming Huawei's patent infringement. Samsung pointed out that Huawei's Mate 8, Glory and other mobile phones and tablet PCs use Samsung's "methods and devices for sending and receiving randomized inter-cell interference control information in mobile communication systems" and "recording method of moving image data. And digital cameras "and other six patents. In addition, the lawsuit also involved Beijing Hengtongda Department Store Co., Ltd.
Samsung demanded that Huawei and Hengtong stop the production, sale, and promised sales of the infringement, and proposed a total amount of 161 million yuan in compensation (Huawei and Hengtong reach 80.5 million yuan each). Now the case is being accepted by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court.
In recent years, mobile phone manufacturers have gradually increased their emphasis on patents, and various large and small patent warfares have become commonplace. Patent reserves have become an important bargaining chip at both ends of the game.
As a representative of domestic mobile phones, Huawei invested US$40 billion in R&D and related intellectual property development in the past 10 years. At present, Huawei is still in a leading position in the number of applications for patents. Among them, patents on communications technologies account for a large portion of the total. This is similar to Ericsson. From 2008 to now, the company’s revenue from patent licensing has approached 90. One hundred million U.S. dollars.
The recent cross-licensing with Apple gave a signal to the industry that Huawei seems to have recovered some of its confidence in patent marketing.
Of course, Samsung is also a patent fury in terms of smart phones. It has the largest number of smartphone-related patents in the world. We are still not sure what kind of results Samsung and Huawei will follow next.
At present, a number of people in the industry believe that the wave of patents launched by Samsung and Huawei will eventually reach a settlement.