Oppo and OnePlus halt phone sales in Germany following Nokia lawsuit

guest · Aug 9, 2022

Finnish telecoms giant tells Chinese phonemakers to finish sales
August 9, 2022

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo and its sub-brand OnePlus have halted sales of smartphones in Germany after losing a patent lawsuit with Nokia.

Nokia has accused the companies of using its patented technology for processing 4G and 5G signals without paying for a license, reports European patent news site Juve Patent, and won an injunction to halt sales last Friday in a German court. (For clarification: this is Nokia the Finnish telecoms giant, a massive player in European telecoms equipment. Nokia the mobile brand is owned by a separate company, also Finnish, named HMD Global.)
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Oppo and OnePlus have complied with this order, as evidenced by changes to their German web stores.

Oppo’s site now makes no mention of hardware devices at all, including phones and smartwatches.
OnePlus has similarly stripped back its German site [...]
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In a press statement given to The Verge, OnePlus’ director of communications Spenser Blank confirmed that the company had halted sales in Germany and blamed “Nokia’s demand for an unreasonably high fee” for patents as the reason for the lawsuit.

In a statement given to Juve Patent, a spokesperson for Oppo also confirmed that the company was “suspending the sale and marketing of certain products through Oppo Germany’s official channels,” and blamed Nokia’s “unreasonably high contract renewal fee” for its patents as the casus belli.
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As both these statements imply: Oppo and OnePlus handsets will continue to work just fine in Germany, and sales may still be available through third-party resellers.
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