In fact, the patent dispute between Huawei and Samsung has to be traced back to 2016. On May 25, 2016, Huawei filed an intellectual property lawsuit against Samsung in the United States and China, including the Northern California Federal Court and Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court. Huawei The indictment claims that Samsung infringed on 11 US patents. Most of the 11 patents are related to LTE (4G) technology and also to 2G/3G technology.
On June 27, 2016, Huawei sued Samsung and other companies to the Quanzhou Intermediate People's Court, claiming that Samsung’s latest Samsung Galaxy S7 (G9300) was involved in patent infringement of 16 Samsung mobile phones and claimed 80.5 million yuan (including reasonable expenses). 500,000 yuan) ;
On July 22, 2016, Samsung sued Beijing Hengtongda Department Store Co., Ltd. in Beijing Intellectual Property Court. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. infringed on its patents. In two of the cases, it claimed compensation for economic losses and reasonable expenses of 80.5 million yuan. 1.61 billion yuan;
On April 6, 2017, Quanzhou Intermediate People's Court found that the Samsung product had a total of 22 products that constituted patent infringement, and ruled that Samsung would stop manufacturing, license sales, and sell terminal equipment equipped with competing patent technologies, including 22 Galaxy series mobile phones. At the same time, Samsung is required to compensate Huawei for the economic loss of 80 million yuan and the reasonable cost of 500,000 yuan to stop the infringement;
On July 18th, Samsung filed an invalidation request with the Patent Reexamination Board on the patent involved. The result was obvious. The Patent Reexamination Board rejected Samsung's request.
In the previous patent litigation, Samsung not only sold more than 20 intelligent terminal products, but also faced high compensation. In the administrative litigation for invalidation of patent right claims, Samsung lost another game.
In this regard, Wang Yanhui, the secretary general of the Mobile China Alliance, said that in the past two years, it was not Ericsson that had provoked the patent battle for mobile phones in the Chinese market. Nokia, but Huawei, targeted not only Samsung, but also many domestic mobile phone brands. I believe this year The trend will intensify.