Over the past few years OPPO has acquired several patents through Golden Valley, a Samoa-based company whose transfer records show that Golden Valley's Inventergy (originally Panasonic), Intellectual Ventures, Intellectual Discovery, , And US patents obtained by SK Telecom and Hilco Global (the former Blackberry patent portfolio) were assigned to OPPO, some of which involve US patents in LTE, wireless communications and wireless networks. Other patents cover China, India and European jurisdictions.
According to the latest data from the State Intellectual Property Office, OPPO entered the top 10 Chinese patent applications in 2017. According to its overseas expansion plan, the company's PCT filings also increased by 142%, but the application alone can not effectively Mitigating the risk of patent disputes arising from a product's entry into new markets, obtaining some additional patent assets from a company like Intel may be a quick and effective way to promote OPPO's international expansion.
OPPO's intellectual property team has been low-key, and showed a preference for smaller portfolios, in sharp contrast to the millet company, which mainly targets large portfolios and mostly engages in complex business and licensing agreements.But OPPO is using Golden The deals conducted by Valley and Sky Royal show that it is interested in overseas patent acquisitions and has some purchasing power.