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China’s Huawei casts wider net for its 4G patent disputes

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Huawei has targeted a unit of Samsung Electronics on the mainland and mobile network operator T-Mobile in the United States in its patent infringement litigation. Photo: Xinhua
He Huifengin Guangdong

Huawei Technologies, China’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, has cast a wider net for its patent-infringement litigation as it targets a unit of Samsung Electronics on the mainland and mobile network operator T-Mobile in the United States.

The two new lawsuits followed Huawei’s decision in May to slap Samsung, the world’s biggest smartphone supplier, with lawsuits for alleged patent violations at the District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco and at the Intermediate People’s Court in Shenzhen, where the privately held Chinese company is based.

Mainland media reported on Wednesday that Huawei has extended its patent dispute against the Korean technology giant by filing a case against its domestic operation, Samsung (China) Investment, at the Intermediate People’s Court of Quanzhou in Fujian province.

Huawei has claimed 80 million yuan (HK$93 million) in compensation for violating its patents on mobile terminal and display-related processing methods used on a range of Samsung smartphone models, including the Galaxy S7, the Galaxy S7 edge and the Galaxy J5, according to online news site qzwb.com

Huawei is prepared to grant licenses to its essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms
Huawei statement

Those smartphones were reportedly assembled at Samsung’s factories in Huizhou and Tianjin.

The two previous lawsuits filed by Huawei against Samsung covered the violation of 11 patents on 4G mobile-related technology and certain software used on Samsung’s smartphones.

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