Today Nokia introduced that it is signed a 5G patent license agreement with Honor. This covers each corporations’ “elementary innovations in 5G and different mobile applied sciences”, in response to the official press launch.
Nokia boasts that it is the fourth main smartphone agreement that it has concluded prior to now 12 months, sounding increasingly like a patent licensing agency than the rest. It additional says its “industry-leading patent portfolio” consists of “round 20,000 patent households, together with over 6,000 patent households declared important to 5G”.
Honor Magic5 Pro
Anyway, as you might have anticipated, the precise phrases of the agreement between Honor and Nokia stay confidential between them. It’s fascinating to see Honor selecting to go this route, whereas fellow Chinese firm Oppo has as a substitute battled it out with Nokia by means of the courts, with some fairly dangerous leads to components of Europe. Maybe Oppo is subsequent?
In early 2023, Nokia prolonged its cross-license patent agreement with Samsung, after which it did the identical with Apple in July. Now Honor is a part of the sport, so there is no probability of Nokia suing it for patent infringement prefer it did with Oppo.
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