Telecom equipment vendor ZTE has filed a lawsuit against domestic rival Huawei Technologies for alleged LTE patent violations.
This came just a few days after Huawei, the larger of the two, successfully sued ZTE in France, Germany, and Hungary for patent…
Telecom equipment vendor ZTE has filed a lawsuit against domestic rival Huawei Technologies for alleged LTE patent violations.
This came just a few days after Huawei, the larger of the two, successfully sued ZTE in France, Germany, and Hungary for patent and trademark infringement on some of its products.
“Huawei has received the injunction as part of our legal claim that ZTE is infringing on our trademark. We welcome the decision, which will protect our innovation and intellectual property,” said Ross Gan, worldwide head, corporate communications of Huawei, in a statement on 11 May.
It has been argued that Huawei is seeking to limit the growth of ZTE. “ZTE has been looking to replicate the success of both Huawei and Ericsson, which is a concern for the two companies,” Huang Leping, an analyst with Nomura International, told TelecomFinance.
Spate of vendor suits
The last few months have seen several vendors suing each other in an attempt to protect their intellectual property rights. A recent example is that of Sweden’s Ericsson and ZTE, which have filed lawsuits against each other in several countries.
In the meantime, Huawei and Motorola Solutions said in April that they had come to an agreement to settle all pending legal action between them over the acquisition of Motorola’s networks business by Europe’s Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).
Huawei, which had worked with Motorola for ten years prior to the deal, was concerned that the deal would involve Motorola transferring confidential Huawei intellectual property information to NSN.
In March, Finnish vendor Nokia filed a second complaint against Apple for allegedly infringing Nokia’s patents in its mobile phones, tablets, portable music players and computers.
