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Qualcomm announced the signing of a patent agreement with vivo Meizu into a lone battle

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2016-08-10 16:36

Nanjing China News: Qualcomm announced that Qualcomm and Vivo Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. (vivo) have reached a new 3G and 4G China patent license agreement. Following Huawei and OPPO, Qualcomm's "circle of friends" will fill in new members. The signing of this agreement means that Meizu has fallen into a state of solitary struggle.

According to the agreement, Qualcomm granted vivo a paid patent license to develop, manufacture and sell complete devices for 3G WCDMA and CDMA2000 and 4G LTE (including "three-mode" GSM, TD-SCDMA and LTE-TDD) for use in China. The patent fees payable by Vivo are consistent with the terms of the rectification measures submitted by Qualcomm to the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China.

Alex Rogers, senior vice president and general manager of technology licensing at Qualcomm, said: "Qualcomm are committed to supporting the continued success of the Chinese wireless industry. We are pleased to have entered into a new licensing agreement with Vivo on the basis of our long-term cooperation. It is great to see that our technology can support the success of large Chinese mobile device manufacturers such as Vivo in the global market."

According to Nanjing Huaxun, up to now, nearly 100 major domestic manufacturers, including Xiaomi, Lenovo, Huawei, OPPO, TCL and ZTE, have successively reached new patent license agreements with Qualcomm. Only Meizu and Qualcomm are still continuing to "see-saw".

Earlier, Qualcomm filed a lawsuit with the Beijing Intellectual Property Office, suing Meizu for infringing its own patents and refusing to support patent fees. Although Meizu has admitted to selling products that infringe Qualcomm's valuable Chinese patents, it has refused to negotiate, saying the royalties are unimaginably expensive.

Less than two months after the incident, OPPO and vivo announced the completion of the patent license agreement with Qualcomm. Qualcomm captured the city of vivo, which means that Meizu has basically fallen into a state of "fighting alone.

According to the analysis of American patent experts in Nanjing Huaxun, according to some previous views in the industry, Meizu is bound to compromise with Qualcomm. It is only a matter of time before it pays the patent license fee. For domestic mobile phone manufacturers, the patent fee has become an unavoidable problem and cost. How to deal with the cost increase after paying the patent license fee, whether to dilute profits or pass on to consumers, will become the main focus of the domestic mobile phone market and product strategy.