OPPO and Huawei sign patent agreement – IT Pro – News

Chinese electronics manufacturers OPPO and Huawei have signed an agreement to use each other’s patents. The companies have announced it. It is not known which patents the companies exchange.

Speak Huawei, among others on patents in the field of 5G, Wi-Fi and codecs for video and audio. As a manufacturer of cell tower equipment, among other things, Huawei has been involved in creating techniques that have ended up in the 5G standard. It is not clear which patents OPPO introduces. OPPO also has network patents, in addition to smartphone camera patents.

Such an agreement usually means that one company pays an amount to the other company and the companies agree to use the technology of their respective patents. Smartphone makers like OPPO need these deals because they use a lot of wireless technologies like 3G, 4G, 5G, WiFi and Bluetooth.

The lack of patents in this area broke OPPO earlier this year when it decided to do so stop selling smartphones in Germany. Phones from OPPO and OnePlus, among others, are not yet on sale in Germany and there is no indication as to when sales will restart. OPPO has decided to stop sales after a losing lawsuit against Nokia, a manufacturer of network equipment like Huawei. Huawei also officially still produces smartphones, but due to US government sanctions, it has released few new models in Europe since 2019.