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CTOnews.com, October 13 news, in July this year, the court in Mannheim region of Germany ruled that OPPO infringed two related technology patents of Nokia, and in August, a court in Munich, Germany also ruled that OPPO infringed two Nokia patents and issued a ban on the sale of OPPO and one plus brand smartphones.

After the first four German bans (two in Mannheim and two in Munich), Ji Wei.com quoted Foss Patents as saying that Nokia had recently been confirmed by the German Mannheim District Court that Nokia had withdrawn its Mannheim complaint against OPPO affiliates, which involved EP3557917, one of Nokia's two patents won in Munich, relating to "methods and devices for providing efficient discontinuous communications". A spokesman for the court further confirmed that the court had previously informed the parties of its preliminary opinion that the patent did not appear to have been actually infringed by OPPO, contrary to the Munich court's ruling on OPPO.

Just a week ago, the Patent trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) accepted OPPO's invalidation request and conducted an invalidation examination of one of Nokia's patents because OPPO "has shown a reasonable possibility of winning the case". Prior to PTAB's decision, the European Patent Office gave a preliminary opinion according to which the European congener patent in the PTAB case was deemed invalid. According to the preliminary opinion of the European Patent Office, most of the claims of Nokia patents opposed by OPPO are lack of novelty and claim 4 lacks creativity.

CTOnews.com learned that Nokia's litigation patents have been exposed by OPPO's counterattack. Foss Patents commented that it was doubtful whether Nokia's patent litigation was profitable, and it was not even clear how much OPPO actually lost in German sales. Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) is still selling three OPPO and two one plus devices. And the operator is a big customer of Nokia and is very skeptical that Nokia will sue them. Foss Patentshai also said Nokia seemed to underestimate OPPO's ability and determination to defend itself.

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