Millet infringement ZTE Huawei mobile phone patent

Chuan zhongxing Huawei to the Millet and other letter rights: the latter infringement of mobile phone patents

The media reported today that ZTE and Huawei had widely issued "lawyers ' letters" to handset makers, including Millet and Oppo, alleging that the latter violated its WCDMA patents.

ZTE issued a statement: "ZTE is one of the richest manufacturers of domestic patents, and we respect IPR protection actions conducive to the healthy development of the terminal industry." ”

Huawei told reporters it would not comment on the matter.

Oppo said he did not receive the relevant legal letter, Millet is unwilling to reply to this message.

Handset manufacturer's sales competition is increasingly fierce. 2014 The third quarter of the global smartphone market report data show: Millet about 18 million shipments to become the world's third-largest expert machine manufacturers, accounting for the global market share of 5.3%.

In the two-quarter report of IDC2014 years ago, the world's third-largest expert machine maker is Huawei. The third quarter, Huawei mobile phone shipments of 16.5 million, and millet shipments is only 1.5 million.

In recent years, the mobile phone industry patent litigation is not uncommon. Between 2011 and 2012, Apple and Samsung two companies launched dozens of lawsuits in 9 countries, and Apple demanded a ban on Samsung's Galaxy products, while Samsung wanted to pull the iphone 4S and IPad 2 into the local blacklist.