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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen South China Wu Yanzu for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com June 7 news, in April this year, Germany Mannheim District Court ruled Nokia won the patent case against vivo, the lawsuit involves Nokia 4G standard essential patent (SEP), vivo official website responded that it has been prepared to suspend the sale and promotion of the products involved through vivo German official channels when necessary.

According to the latest news from Vivo Germany on May 30, Vivo has decided to temporarily stop selling products in the German market.

Vivo German official website announcement as follows:

Vivo fully respects intellectual property rights and is committed to continuous innovation through extensive research and development. In recent years, Vivo has signed cross-licensing agreements with a number of leading companies. We have been in talks with Nokia about renewing the mutual license, but so far no agreement has been reached. We firmly believe that Nokia has not fulfilled its obligation to provide licenses on FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) terms.

We are disappointed by the judgment of the Regional Court of Mannheim on April 6, 2023 and, following Nokia's execution of these judgments, we have suspended the sale and marketing of the products in Germany.

We have appealed these decisions and will examine other options. At the same time, we are in close contact with Nokia to complete license negotiations under FRAND terms.

Our long-term commitment to the German market remains unchanged. Users can rely on customer support and future software updates for their devices. There is no impact on our business outside Germany.

CTOnews.com View vivo Germany official website found that the website has been removed from all product introductions, leaving only the home page, support two pages.

▲ Current vivo German official website

It is worth mentioning that in July last year, the German Mannheim District Court ruled that OPPO infringed Nokia patents and granted Nokia a stop order against OPPO. OPPO and some equipment were banned from sale in Germany.

In response, the relevant person in charge of OPPO said that some products will be suspended from sales in Germany. He also said: "The company firmly opposes unreasonable high patent fees and firmly opposes malicious acts of coercing licensees to negotiate and accept unreasonable high license fees through litigation." He also mentioned that OPPO respects intellectual property rights and advocates reasonable fees, advocates the settlement of intellectual property disputes between licensees and licensees in an amicable manner, and respects the value of patents.

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