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Johnny：
Huawei sues Samsung over patents
Huawei is suing its tech rival Samsung over claims that its patents have been infringed.
The Chinese firm said it was pursuing its South Korean rival in two courts - one in California, the other in Shenzhen. According to Huawei, several of its cellular communications and software inventions had been used in Samsung&`&s phones without its permission. Samsung told the BBC it would defend its business interests. And the specific patents involved have not been disclosed. However, Huawei has said at least some of them are classed as Frand - an acronym referring to "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory".
The Shenzhen-based company is seeking compensation for what it said was unlicensed use of 4G cellular communications technology, operating systems and user interface software in Samsung phones. Huawei said it invested 9.2 billion U.S. dollars, or 15 percent of annual revenue, in researching and developing technologies, products and wireless communications standards last year.
Iris：
This means the Chinese company has committed itself to offering anyone a licence so long as they agree to a non-excessive compensation. This kind of agreement is common in the tech sector as it makes it possible for different companies&`& products to communicate and share data formats with each other. Huawei&`&s intellectual property chief indicated it was seeking permission to use some of Samsung&`&s technologies in return rather than seeking a payment.
"Thus far, we have signed cross-licensing agreements with dozens of our competitors," said Ding Jianxing. "We hope Samsung will respect Huawei&`&s R&D investment and patents, stop infringing our patents and get the necessary licence from Huawei, and work together with Huawei to jointly drive the industry forward." A Samsung spokesperson responded in an email to the BBC saying "we will thoroughly review the complaint and take appropriate action to defend Samsung&`&s business interests".
Johnny：
Purposes
Huawei&`&s move is seen as the first step to exceed Samsung and also an important step. After all, if it wants to surpass Samsung in the global market, the patent means is one of an important method.
When reinforcing itself against patent litigation risks, Huawei began to try to carry out the operations of patents through licensing, sale, etc., while this attack to Samsung was seen as a patent counterattack by Chinese domestic manufacturers.If not full grasp, Huawei may not be so radical, while the official also stated that they still cooperate with other aspects of Samsung normally, such as display panel supply.
Iris：
Patent wars
The action comes at a time when Oracle and Google are waiting for a jury to come back with a verdict in a copyright trial that has pitted the two giants against each other in the US.But such clashes have become less common since Apple and Samsung&`&s high-profile courtroom battle in 2011, which led to both firms revealing secrets about their inner workings and racking up large legal bills.
One expert noted that just because papers had been filed in the latest case did not mean Huawei and Samsung would necessarily fight a similar battle in public. "Huawei may have initiated litigation as lever to get a settlement," commented Ilya Kazi from the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. "We don&`&t know if it intends to go all the way through. Most cases do settle."
Johnny：
Want to understand why Huawei has such power to attack Samsung? Let’s continue.
Not Apple, not Samsung, but Huawei filed the most international patents last year!
Apple is known to be a bit of a patent bully, with its habit to patent whatever ideas they manage to gather regardless of their chances of being implemented. Samsung, on the other hand, has had to pay millions of dollars in damage for patent infringement, and has finally started filing a lot more patents.
But guess what, it wasn’t Samsung or even Apple that filed the most number of international patents in 2014. It was, in fact, China’s own Huawei! The company isn’t particularly renown for its innovation, which is perhaps why this report (by the World Intellectual Property Organization) happens to be as astonishing as it is.
Iris:
Here are the statistics, according to the International Patent Application Number of PCT released by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2015, Huawei applied for 3898 patents with an increase of 456 compared with last year. And it’s the second consecutive year that Huawei ranks first in global enterprises. In "Fortune" Global 500 list in 2015, Samsung Electronics , South Korea&`&s largest electronics companies, ranked thirteenth in all technology companies and ranked first in all technology companies, and US-known enterprises. apple ranked fifteenth.
Johnny:
Some of the most popular product launches byHuawei last year have been theAscend P7 (now known as the P7),Honor 6,Honor 6 Plus and of course, theMate 7. While none of the aforementioned products offered anything substantially new, the Mate 7 was certainly lauded for the one-touch fingerprint sensor, among other things.
Huawei also has one of the best looking smartwatches in the pipeline for this year, something that one would imagine was designed last year (and thus, applicable patents filed in 2014). The smartwatch is due in some time from now, and we’re pretty keen on knowing how much it costs (hope it isn’tgoing to be too much).
Iris:
That isn’t a lot of product launches (of course, there were more that didn’t really grab the headlines much), but for some reason, Huawei seems to have filed a lot of patents. I’m not really sure if Huawei would like to carry that tag, since innovation isn’t really directly proportional to the number of patents you file.
