Today Nokia announced that it has signed a 5G patent licensing agreement with Honor. This covers both companies’ “core inventions in 5G and other cellular technologies,” according to the official press release.
Nokia boasts it’s the fourth major smartphone deal struck in the last 12 months, sounding more and more like a patent licensing company more than anything else. It also claims that its “industry-leading patent portfolio” consists of “approximately 20,000 patent families, including more than 6,000 patent families declared essential for 5G.”
Honor Magic5 Pro
Anyway, as you might have expected, the exact terms of the deal between Honor and Nokia remain confidential between them. It’s interesting to see Honor choosing to go this route, while Chinese company Oppo has instead battled Nokia through the courts, with some pretty bad results in some parts of Europe. Maybe Oppo will be next?
In early 2023, Nokia extended its patent cross-licensing agreement with Samsung, and then did the same with Apple in July. Now Honor is part of the game, so there’s no chance Nokia will sue it for patent infringement like it did with Oppo.
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