Huawei, the information and communications technology solutions provider (ICT), has filed an anti trust complaint with the European Commission against US based InterDigital. It has urged the Commission to intervene to end InterDigital?s abuses of its patents allegedly essential to the 3G (UMTS) standard.
For long time Huawei has been talking to InterDigital to reach an agreement with on licensing fees for mobile devices. But with no foreseeable resolution, Huawei has filed the complaint against InterDigital with the European Union.
As per the complaint InterDigital as a non-practicing entity is seeking to leverage its declared 3G standard essential patents to force Huawei to conclude a discriminatory, unfair and exploitative license. Huawei maintains that InterDigital?s demand manifestly breaches the policies of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute calling for fair, reasonable, and non discriminatory (FRAND) licensing practices by technology patent holders, and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Commission.
