Huawei announces renewal of patent cross-license agreement with Nokia

CTOnews.com, December 23, Huawei and Nokia announced the renewal of their patent license agreement. It is reported that subject to the confidentiality clause, the cross-license terms will not be further disclosed.

Huawei and OPPO announced the signing of a global patent cross-licensing agreement, which covers basic patents for cellular communications standards, including the 5G standard. Huawei and Samsung Group have also reached a cross-licensing agreement for their respective standard essential patent packages.

"usually large manufacturers are both right holders and users, so licenses between large manufacturers are usually cross-licenses," Huawei said. in a cross-license agreement, each party obtains a patent license from the other, and which party ends up paying the license fee to the other depends on the patent value and market conditions of both parties. "

It is reported that about 350 million 5G mobile phones and 1500 million connected cars are expected to be licensed by Huawei in 2022, about 30 million home users' broadband access terminals are licensed, and 45 per cent of the world's data communications connections are licensed by Huawei.

CTOnews.com learned that Huawei currently holds about 10 per cent of global 4G patents, about 20 per cent of 5G, Wi-Fi 6 and H.266 patents, about 30 per cent of OTN and 10G PON patents, and about 20 per cent of IETF patents.

"in 2022, we signed more than 20 new or renewed license agreements, including smartphones, car networking, the Internet of things, and so on," Huawei said. in the field of connected cars alone, we have reached licenses with about 15 car companies to provide advanced patented technology to well-known car companies, including Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche, Renault, Suzuki, Lamborghini, Subaru and Bentley. "