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Samsung ordered to pay HUAWEI $11 million over patent infringement
July 09, 2025
It’s been a rocky six months forSamsung. It’s Galaxy Note 7 wascancelledlate last year, then its boss wasarrested, and now, a Chinese court has ordered it to pay 80 million Yuan (~$11.60 million) to HUAWEI for patent infringement.
According toReuters,Huaweisued a total of five companies in China, three of Samsung’s and two Chinese electronics companies, for “making and selling more than 20 kinds of Samsung smartphone and tablet products” that infringed its patents. The five firms have now been ordered to stop infringing HUAWEI’s copyrights, and Samsung must pay the damages.
HUAWEI sought compensation for more than “30 million products” that sold for “$12.7 billion,” saidReuters. TheGalaxy S7is believed to be among them.
Reutersdidn’t detail the intricacies of the infringement in its most recent report, but when HUAWEI launched the suit last year,Reuterssaid that HUAWEI wanted compensation for “unlicensed use of fourth-generation (4G) cellular communications technology, operating systems and user interface software in Samsung phones.”
A HUAWEI spokesperson toldReutersit “welcomed the court’s decision,” while Samsung said it would “decide on the response to the court’s decision after reviewing the ruling.”
Ultimately, this appears to be a very small win for HUAWEI: I mean, what’s $11 million to Samsung? Its IT and mobile unitpostedKRW 23.61 trillion, around $21 billion, in consolidated revenue for 2016, which the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge made a significant contribution to. If Samsung is being penalized $11 million to have achieved the huge sales figures its products did, it seems like good business.
What’s more, that figure pales in comparison to theup to $548.2 millionit may have to pay Apple in June as that long-running US patent dispute draws to a close. Half a billion dollars would be considerably more troubling.
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