The manufacturer of Oppo and OnePlus smartphones had to stop selling in Germany. The Chinese company lost a lawsuit for the use of patents against Nokia. The Finnish telecom giant has obtained a court order ending the marketing of Oppo and OnePlus phones and watches.
Modified manufacturer websites
The Munich Regional Court ruled on August 5 in favor of Nokia, reports The Verge. The company blames Oppo, and by extension its OnePlus subsidiary, for using its proprietary 4G and 5G signals without paying a license.
The two patents in question are EP3557917 and EP2080193, specifies the Juve Patent specialized site. They are respectively called “Method and Apparatus for Providing Efficient Discontinuous Communication” and “Fundamental Frequency Delay Estimation”.
The Oppo group has complied with this decision by modifying its websites. There is no mention of a phone or watch on the German version of Oppo’s site. For OnePlus, the phone section has been emptied.
Financial reasons behind the case.
This decision only concerns the sale by the Oppo group. Third-party resellers still have the option to sell devices from the Chinese manufacturer. In the same way, German users of these smartphones should not suffer any inconvenience related to this complaint, as Spenser Blank, director of communications at OnePlus, explains to The Verge.
In Oppo, as in OnePlus, economic reasons are put forward to explain the origin of this court case. OnePlus points to an unreasonable commission request from Nokia. Same story for Oppo, whose spokesperson describes “unreasonably high contract renewal fees.”
Source: BFM TV
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