The Intermediate People's Court in Shenzhen recently
ruled in favour of Huawei against Samsung in a case involving two
standard-essential patents (SEP) owned by Huawei, after finding
that Samsung infringed the two patents and had "maliciously
delayed negotiations".
This decision is the latest in an ongoing saga of patent
disputes between the Asian tech giants, which have been filing
lawsuits against each other in China and the US since May 2016. In
the ruling, Samsung was ordered to immediately stop the
manufacturing and sales of their infringing products and to pay a
small court fee, although it is not clear which of the phone models
are affected.
Two main issues were considered in detail by the court during an
18-day trial - the first relates to whether the two patents owned
by Huawei are essential to the 4G standard, and the other being
whether FRAND was breached by either of the parties during the
negotiation discussions.
