A while ago, we just reported that Apple and Ericsson were in a lawsuit. Because Ericsson held some of the 5G patents, after the patent expired, Apple felt that Ericsson's price was too high and did not choose to renew it. It tried to find other ways to bypass Ericsson's patent.

A while ago, we just reported that Apple and Ericsson were in a lawsuit. Because Ericsson had mastered some of the 5G patents, after the patent expired, Apple felt that Ericsson's asking price was too harsh and did not choose to renew it, and tried to find other methods. To bypass Ericsson's patent, this caused Ericsson's dissatisfaction.

This also led Ericsson to initiate infringement lawsuits against Apple's 5G equipment around the world. In April this year, the Colombian court believed that Apple had infringed Ericsson's locally approved NC2019/0003681 patent, and ruled on July 6 to ban Apple. If you import, sell or commercialize infringing products in any other way, your 5G equipment cannot be sold in Colombia.

Coincidentally, news came today that the Mannheim District Court in Germany ruled that OPPO infringed Nokia's patent and granted Nokia a cease and desist order against OPPO, which means that OPPO and OnePlus devices may be banned in Germany.

The reason is that Nokia and OPPO broke down in negotiations on 4G and 5G patents. This is basically the same as the reason for the conflict between Apple and Ericsson. According to the 2022 China Academy of Information and Communications Technology "Global 5G Patent Activity Report", every Building a 5G mobile phone will cost Nokia 271 yuan in patent fees.

Although Nokia’s mobile phone empire is a thing of the past, Nokia has made a lot of money through heritage patents. In 2021 alone, the patent licensing business contributed 10.2 billion in revenue to Nokia. Obviously, OPPO feels that Nokia is taking advantage of it. It's a bit ugly.

According to a report by European patent media JUVE Patent, the stop order involves two standard essential patents (SEPs) EP 29 81 103 and EP 32 20 562. OPPO products using these two technologies will no longer be sold in Germany.

OPPO official said: "OPPO is firmly opposed to unreasonable and high-priced patent charges, and is firmly opposed to the malicious behavior of forcing licensees to negotiate and accept unreasonable high-priced license fees through litigation."

We still need to wait for further development of the matter, but starting from this Judging from the results, those who master intellectual property rights are the real industry leaders, are you right?