Huawei Committed to Open IPR Licensing System

“Huawei respects and protects intellectual property rights (IPR) and is committed to an open IPR licensing system,” said Chen Lifang, Huawei Board Member and Senior Vice President.

Chen Lifang continued, “Since its early years, Huawei has proactively advocated for strong IPR protection. Huawei is one of the first Chinese enterprises to have signed cross-licensing agreements with Western peers. Every year, Huawei pays approximately US$300 million in royalties to legitimately use the patented technologies of industry peers. Huawei also licenses our patented technologies to our peers. For example, just recently, Huawei and Spain’s Teletronic entered into a commercial cross-licensing agreement for core LTE patents.” 

Huawei actively cooperates with European companies and organizations on the development of break-through innovations and then puts these products into their first commercial use in Europe. For example, using its SingleRAN LTE solutions, Huawei deployed world’s first commercial LTE network for TeliaSonera in 2009 and deployed the world’s first LTE DD800 commercial network for Vodafone in 2011.Huawei has built two R&D centres in Europe, and R&D offices in 12 European cities, employing 800 R&D engineers. This year, Huawei established two new R&D offices in Finland and Ireland and plans to double its R&D staff in Europe in the next three years.