Samsung Sues Huawei Over Patent Infringement
July 21 2016 - 10:40PM
Dow Jones News
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. has sued China's Huawei
Technologies Co. for allegedly infringing on six patents, the
latest salvo between Asia's two dominant smartphone makers over
patents and innovation.
The lawsuit, filed in Beijing's Intellectual Property Court,
seeks damages of 161 million Chinese yuan ($24.1 million), alleging
that some of Huawei's smartphones, including its Mate8 smartphone
and its Honor-branded lineup of handsets, infringed on Samsung's
patents.
The lawsuit also calls on the court to block Huawei and another
company, Beijing Hengtongda Department Store Co., from producing or
selling the devices, according to a court document.
It comes two months after Huawei, a telecommunications-equipment
maker that has quickly gained ground competing with Samsung on
smartphones, first filed a lawsuit against Samsung, alleging the
South Korean electronics maker infringed on a number of patents
covering mobile devices and cellular-communications technology.
The May lawsuit, which Huawei filed against Samsung in the U.S.
and China, was the first major legal challenge from a Chinese rival
against Samsung, the world's No. 1 maker of smartphones by sales
volume.
In a statement Friday, Samsung said it had "faithfully
negotiated with other patent holders for the fair licensing of
technology." In this case, however, it added: "Despite our best
efforts to resolve this matter amicably, it has regrettably become
necessary to take legal action in order to defend our intellectual
property."
A spokesman for Huawei declined to comment.
The lawsuit and countersuit come as Huawei increasingly emerges
as the main rival to Samsung, particularly in the world of
smartphones running Android, the dominant mobile operating system
owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google.
In the first three months of the year, Huawei sold more
smartphones to end consumers than any other Android maker except
for Samsung, accounting for 8.3% of the market, up from 5.4% a year
earlier, according to research firm Gartner. Over that same period,
Samsung's market share slipped to 23.2%, down from 24.1% a year
earlier.
Write to Jonathan Cheng at jonathan.cheng@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 21, 2016 22:25 ET (02:25 GMT)
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