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Qualcomm and Meizu patent dispute spread to Europe and America

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2016-10-27 15:30

According to a report from Nanjing Hua Xun on October 17, the authorization dispute between the American technology company Qualcomm and Meizu continues to heat up, and it has recently hit foreign countries.

Recently, Qualcomm to the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) and Germany, France region to sue Meizu infringement. Don Rosenberg, executive vice president and general counsel of Qualcomm, said that the delay in reaching an agreement between the two parties left Qualcomm with no other choice but to protect its patent rights through additional legal means.

Qualcomm has filed more than a dozen complaints against Meizu in China's intellectual property court this summer, hoping that Meizu will agree to the terms of the patent licensing agreement, which the two sides have been talking about for more than a year.

Because of China's patent licensing problems, Qualcomm has not been doing well in recent years. Earlier last year, Qualcomm filed a lawsuit with Chinese equipment manufacturers and agreed to pay 975,000,000 patent licensing fines. The National Development and Reform Commission has also conducted a year-long anti-monopoly investigation.

Since then, more than 100 mobile phone manufacturers in China-including Huawei, Xiaomi, ZTE and Vivo-have signed licensing agreements with Qualcomm, but Meizu has not participated.

A recent statement in response to Qualcomm's lawsuit said Meizu said it was willing to sign a patent license agreement with Qualcomm, but the terms were unreasonable. In addition, according to Nanjing Huaxun, Meizu also said that if "Qualcomm wins, the entire Chinese mobile phone industry will face a crisis."