Samsung and Huawei settle patent row
Samsung and Huawei have asked an appeals court to pause proceedings in a patent infringement dispute after entering into a settlement agreement.
On Tuesday, February 26, the companies asked the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for a 30-day stay while they complete the steps to finalise the agreement.
The companies were set to go to jury trial in September this year, after Samsung alleged that Huawei breached its FRAND (fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory) licensing obligations.
According to the latest filing, the parties entered into the agreement on Friday, February 25 and anticipate that they will finalise it in the next several weeks.
Once this is complete, Huawei will file an “unopposed motion to dismiss this pending appeal within the next 30 days”, the document said.
No further details about the settlement have been published.
This is not the first time the companies have been in litigation. In 2016, Huawei sued Samsung in China. It alleged that Samsung was infringing multiple patents relating to 4G telecommunication technologies, operating systems, and interface software.
In 2017, a Chinese court ruled in favour of Huawei and ordered Samsung to pay Huawei 80 million yuan (around $11.6 million) for patent violations.
Huawei is also facing criminal charges in the US after the Department of Justice (DoJ) accused it of stealing trade secrets from US competitors.
In a press release on January 28, the FBI said Huawei is facing 23 criminal charges, including accusations that it operated a rewards system for employees to incentivise the theft of trade secrets.
The company is also alleged to have stolen robotic parts from T-Mobile US.
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