Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com, October 24, according to the website of Chongqing Court Public Service Network, Chongqing No. 1 Intermediate people's Court will hold a hearing from 14:30 to 18:00 on October 27, 2022 to hear the dispute over standard essential patent royalties between OPPO and Nokia. The case number is (2021) Yu 01, the beginning of the Republic of China.

The court notice shows that the plaintiffs in the case are OPPO Guangdong Mobile Communications Co., Ltd., OPPO Guangdong Mobile Communications Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Branch, OPPO (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., and the defendants are Nokia Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Nokia Technology (Nokia Technologies Oy) and Nokia (Nokia Corporation).

CTOnews.com learned that a court in Mannheim, Germany, ruled in July that OPPO had infringed two related technology patents of Nokia. In August, a court in Munich, Germany, also ruled that OPPO infringed two Nokia patents and imposed 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Foss Patents as saying that Nokia had recently been confirmed by the German Mannheim District Court that Nokia had withdrawn its Mannheim complaint against OPPO affiliates, which involved EP3557917, one of Nokia's two patents won in Munich, relating to "methods and devices for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.

Earlier this month, the Patent trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) accepted OPPO's invalidation request and conducted an invalid 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.

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