In fact, Qualcomm previously said at the law said it has at present, in addition to Apple, there is a Chinese mobile phone brands also refused to pay royalties, according to supply chain news, the mainland mobile phone brand manufacturers is Huawei.It is reported, Huawei's annual shipment of smartphones is about 150 million pieces. Although the average unit price of Huawei handsets is relatively low at about 300 U.S. dollars, Huawei pays the Qualcomm royalties every year, accounting for about 5% to 10% of Qualcomm's royalties Huawei has its own baseband technology, and many other related patents, then decided to suspend payment of Qualcomm royalties.
For the above news, Huawei said "not to respond to market rumors." In addition, Qualcomm is currently no response to this rumor.
Qualcomm holds a number of standard essential patents in the field of mobile communications. In the field of mobile devices, Qualcomm patented a certain percentage of royalties according to the sales price of the complete machine. This model is subject to some controversy.
In February 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the largest ticket to China's antitrust history in the Qualcomm case: Qualcomm Corp. was fined 6.08 billion yuan due to its monopoly and was ordered to rectify it Qualcomm was accused of charging unfair high-priced patent licenses Fees, without legitimate reasons for tying non-essential wireless communication standard patent license, in the baseband chip sales unreasonable conditions attached to monopolistic behavior, and thus earn high profits in China.
Since then, Qualcomm fined, and the original pattern of patent licensing reform.Quotes the original model is in accordance with the handset manufacturers pumping a certain percentage of the price of each machine, later changed to chip-based patent license.In addition, the original model Is to handset manufacturers own patent free of charge into the Qualcomm patent pool, controlled by Qualcomm, in order to avoid the handset companies encountered various intellectual property disputes.
After the rectification, Qualcomm signed a separate patent license agreement with each mobile phone company, and subsequently, Chinese manufacturers including Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, Coolpad and Meizu signed the formal patent licensing agreement with Qualcomm.