Huawei: InterDigital’s lawsuit aims at driving up patent price

Published on August 12, 2011 by connie | This story has been viewed 1,675 views

InterDigital, a scientific company that owns 1300 mobile phone patents, filed an infringement lawsuit against Huawei with U.S Trade Department, which is aimed at driving up the company’s intellectual property package price, according to Huawei.

Huawei said in an email addressed to U.S International Trade Commission (ITC) located in Washington D.C on August 5, “InterDigital may take advantage of the investigation process of the Commission to drive up its own price since the company now is preparing to sell its IP assets.”

InterDigital said on July 19 that it was considering selling part of its patents and it filed lawsuit to ITC on July 26 alleging Huawei, Nokia and ZTE infringed seven of its 3G wireless technology patents.

“It’s quite obvious that InterDigital is taking advantage of the investigation process of the Commission for only one purpose of driving up the price of the patents it owns, which has nothing good for the domestic industry that the law in China should protect,” said Sturgis Sobin of Covington& Burling on behalf of Huawei.

“It’s unjustifiable if ITC chooses to protect such a company that tries to use patent lawsuit to force other companies into a lawsuit trap. InterDigital is only to make use of ITC to put a higher value on itself,” ZTE said in an email.

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