Recently, it is reported that Qualcomm sued the Voiceover Holdings in the High Court of Delhi in India, accusing the latter invading the four non -standard necessary patents. Although both parties have responded to the incident, each of which is the word, how the truth is still to be disclosed in the court's relevant documents.

01 The expansion of the "King of African Mobile"

Chuanyin is headquartered in Shenzhen, China. It is mainly engaged in the smartphone business of going out of the sea. With insight and overwhelming advertising and publicity of local African users, it has long been known as the "king of African mobile phones". Essence In recent years, Chuan Yin has begun to expand global emerging market countries such as South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The global volume has continued to increase, and its popularity has also risen.

According to IDC data, the top five of the global smartphone market share in 2023 are Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO and Voiceover, with market share of 20.1%, 19.4%, 12.5%, 8.8%, and 8.1%. Compared with 2022, only the annual annual production volume of Apple and Chuan Yin achieved a year-on-year increase, and the pronunciation increased by 30.8%year -on -year, while Apple only increased by 3.7%. In the first quarter of 2024, the rumors increased strongly, and its shipments increased by 85%, and the market share reached 9.9%surpassing OPPO, ranking fourth among the top five mobile phone manufacturers.

Corresponding to it is its performance. According to the financial report, in 2023, the operating income of Chuanyin Holdings was 62.295 billion yuan, an increase of 33.69%year -on -year; net profit was 5.537 billion yuan, an increase of 122.93%year -on -year. In 2023, the gross profit margin of Chuanyin mobile phones was 24.18%, and the gross profit margin in other regions such as Africa, Asia, and other regions were 30.97%and 21.11%, respectively.

The prosecution of Qualcomm may make the pace of spreading expansion encountered a crisis. It is understood that India is one of the relatively important markets in the global layout and has established factories and logistics warehouses in Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh and other places. IDC data statistics, in 2023, the market share in India's smart machines was 8.2%, ranking sixth.

02 Why is the primitive prosecution?

It is understood that Qualcomm's prosecution in India violates four non-standard necessary patents. This is compared to the standard necessary patent (SEP).

SEP refers to the patent that must be used for implementing technical standards, and has the characteristics of irreplaceability and mandatoryness. Because of this, such patent holders must promise to standardize organizations to permit these patents in a fair, reasonable, and discriminatory clause to prevent patent people from using their status to monopolize the market.

Non-standard necessary patents refer to those patents that are not necessary for international standards or industry standards, but they are the patent scope owned by patent owners. Other companies can try to bypass these patents, but if they choose to use, they need to pay patent fees.

Qualcomm pointed out in the statement that Chuanyin Holdings has always refused to comprehensively obtain Qualcomm's permission. Most of the products have not been permitted by Qualcomm, and they are still invading Qualcomm's highly valuable patent combination.

However, Chuanyin Holdings emphasized that Chuan Yin has signed a 5G standard patent license agreement with Qualcomm and is performing the agreement. However, in some countries, some patent owners do not have or only have a small amount of patents, but they are required to ask for excessive permit fees in accordance with the global unified rate.

Pronunciation added that the current influence is mainly in India (market). Some time ago, the company has signed a 5G standard patent license agreement with Qualcomm and is performing the agreement. The patents such as 3G and 4G have not reached an agreement. The company will continue to conduct patent negotiations with Qualcomm.

In fact, it is not uncommon to patent in the mobile phone industry. Mobile phone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo, have been trapped in the controversy of patent infringement. For example, in 2018, OPPO signed a three -year license agreement with Nokia, including the necessary patents covering 2G, 3G, and 4G standards. At the end of June 2021, Nokia launched dozens of infringement lawsuits on OPPO in many countries around the world on the first day of the agreement. The German court judged that it violated the Nokia patent, which caused OPPO mobile phones to ban on sale in Germany. Essence

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