In the morning on May 25, the company announced that in the north district court of California and China shenzhen intermediate people's court for samsung, intellectual property litigation.
Huawei in the lawsuit for samsung in its intellectual property rights infringement compensation, these intellectual property rights involving high values of communication technology patent and samsung mobile phone software.
By convention, the enterprise generally with the litigation before lawsuits company intellectual property negotiations, the two sides can't reach a consensus will be sued to the court.
"Huawei talks with other patent holders in the industry for many years and cross licensing, has signed a license agreement with dozens of friends in the industry business." Intellectual property rights minister jian-xin ding said, "huawei hope samsung respect huawei's research and development and achievements of intellectual property rights, to stop without permission of the patent infringement."
According to the huawei data, in 2015, the company to new technology, new products and research and development of wireless communication standard investment of RMB 59.6 billion ($9.2 billion), 15% of sales revenue.
According to the world intellectual property organization (WIPO) in 2015 released by the international PCT patent application number statistics, huawei has applied for 3898 patents, an increase of 456 from a year earlier. By the end of 2015, huawei has worldwide authorized 50377 patents, the patent including for smart phones has the very high value of LTE communication, smart phone operating system, user interface such as patent.
According to media reports, last year, huawei series of patent license agreement with apple, covering GSM, UMTS, LTE wireless communication technology, etc.
Previously, according to the state intellectual property office of the latest license and registration information shows that in 2015 to 769 patents apple licensing, apple to huawei licensing 98 patents. Huawei said that huawei to apple licensing is a fact, but the specific charges relating to the confidentiality agreement. Also have the personage inside course of study to estimate, apple to huawei in paying hundreds of millions of dollars last year level.
However, all the intellectual property rights of war between the big lost, this is a powerful weapon on competitors.
Apple and samsung in the global intellectual property fight for several years, apple is also another important competitor HTC right then mentioned that intellectual property litigation.
Between giant cross licensing, however, quite a lot, are in the sometimes-complex mix-and-match, I have you, do not rule out samsung counterclaim.
Samsung still is the world's largest smartphone shipments, also the android camp boss.
May 23, a market research company Gartner report shows that: in the first quarter of this year samsung mobile global shipments for 81.18 million units, a 23.2% market share, was 24.1% over the same period last year declined slightly; Apple mobile phone shipments to 51.62 million units, with 14.8% market share, edged down 17.9% from a year earlier; Huawei came in third, shipments for 28.86 million units, the market share of 8.3%.
Samsung shipments is the sum of the apple and huawei. However, three of huawei is the only market share is on the rise.
