A patent dispute over rights to 4G technology could result in Huawei being banned from selling in England and Wales.

 

一项关于4G技术的专利纠纷可能导致华为在英格兰和威尔士被禁售。

 

That's according to BBC News, who report that the Chinese telecommunications giant has been ordered to pay a global licencing fee to Unwired Planet.

 

They're a US firm who purchased patents that used to belong to Ericsson.

 

For some clarity of how the situation arose, here's an extract from the judgement:

 

'Unwired Planet have a worldwide patent portfolio¹ which includes numerous patents which are declared essential to various telecommunications standards.

 

Most of the relevant portfolio was acquired from Ericsson. Unwired Planet's business is licensing² those patents to companies who make and sell telecommunications equipment such as mobile phones and infrastructure³.

 

This action began in March 2014 when Unwired Planet sued Huawei, Samsung and Google for infringement⁴ of six UK patents from their portfolio.'

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