This is not July 13 news. According to foreign media reports, Verizon of the United States and Huawei of China reached a settlement in two patent lawsuits. A Huawei spokesperson confirmed that the two companies' two-year patent litigation ended through settlement, and Huawei abandoned the lawsuit against Version, the largest communication operator in the United States. At the same time, Verizon, the largest telecom operator in the United States, withdrew its counterclaim against Huawei.
Verizon Telecom, USA
It was formed by the merger of Atlantic Bell and Nynex, two original Bell operating companies in the United States, and independent GTE telephone company. After the formal merger of the two companies, Verizon became the largest local telephone company in the United States, the largest wireless communication company and the largest provider of printed yellow pages and online yellow pages information in the world. The market value of the company has surpassed that of Google. According to Forbes' 100 top enterprises, Verizon ranks 17.
Event starting point
The lawsuit started from 2065438+June 2009. At that time, Huawei completely left the American market because the United States ignored the laws of the market and wantonly suppressed Huawei.
accident cause
Because Huawei has been deployed in the American market earlier, and more importantly, the leading position of 5G technology, Verizon has been unable to find an alternative for a long time after Huawei left the American market, resulting in it still using Huawei's core network, wired infrastructure, and Internet of Things technology, and so on, which is close to more than 240 patents.
2065438+June 2009, Huawei asked Verizon for more than 654.38 billion dollars in patent fees. The following year, the negotiations between the two sides broke down and Huawei filed a lawsuit. At the same time, Verizon filed a counterclaim against Huawei, accusing Huawei of infringing its patents.
Obviously, in the 3GPP conference held in Sweden on August 20 16, the major companies involved were Qualcomm, Samsung, ZTE, Xiaomi, Huawei, hisilicon, China Unicom, Spreadtrum, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone, among which Vodafone was a subsidiary acquired by Verizon in March 2065438. In the end, Huawei's patented technology accounted for 15.3%, and Davaofeng's patent was negligible. As a telecom operator, Verizon's counterclaim against Huawei is only a means to use the United States to suppress Huawei's procrastination or refusal to pay.
Obviously, Verizon's use of Huawei patents far exceeds Huawei's use of Vodafone patents. This is an indisputable fact. There is no need to say more about who wins and loses this lawsuit in a slightly fairer country.
However, in the United States, the allegations of both sides lasted for two years, and no substantive progress was made.
In desperation, Huawei once again proposed to solve the "patent authorization problem" in February 20021year. The patents proposed by Huawei this time cover many patents such as computer network, download security and video communication. These patent licenses obviously involve network equipment provided by more than 20 suppliers of Verizon Telecom.
Coincidence time point
A few days after Nokia asked oppo for patent fees, on July 7, Huawei sued Verizon for patent infringement. This time, Verizon did not make too many counterclaims, but actively mediated with Huawei. Considering the American website, Huawei took a step back. Huawei only asked Verizon to respect Huawei's R&D investment. Sure enough, Verizon said on Monday that "Verizon is very happy to reach a patent litigation settlement with Huawei", but the terms of the agreement are confidential.
In fact, a large number of patent litigation cases, in the final analysis, are all about finding a balance between the two parties in the litigation process, which is nothing more than discussing the amount acceptable to both the payer and the receiver, but this time it just happened to catch up with "a few days after Nokia asked oppo for patent fees", which really made Chinese people dare not think about it.
Huawei speaks with strength
With excellent technology and unparalleled R&D capabilities, Huawei once again showed the world who is the 5G Taishan Beidou. So far, after collecting patent fees from Apple, Samsung and Volkswagen, Huawei has added another general: Verizon, the largest telecom operator in the United States.
As the greatest enterprise of the Chinese nation, Huawei fought its way out again under the siege of the whole western world without fear of power and arbitrary suppression. It was quite brave in the Zhao Zilong War of that year.
After Nokia asked oppo for the patent fee, Huawei officially showed its attitude to the western world. The Chinese nation in the East has risen, and it is no longer the weak China in the past.
Let's go Porcelain; (China) China
On the other hand, there are still some mobile phone manufacturers in China who are unreasonable and stubborn, and collude with Qualcomm to harvest China leeks. What I want to say is: face is earned by yourself, not by kneeling and licking others, but by others. Don't be proud of "I can buy the most advanced processor in Qualcomm, but you can't buy it in Huawei", but be ashamed of it! Do research and development, and do the core technology yourself. At that time, there will be no need to ask for help humbly, and there will be no need to assemble mobile phones to earn hard money. It was the moment when China really stood on top of the world.
Come on, China Enterprise!