Transsion is a company possibly best known for affordable yet potentially interesting smartphones such as the Infinix GT 30 Pro (currently starting at INR 25,190 on Amazon.in). It has just run afoul of a much more notorious firm in the personal electronics space for a much less salubrious reason.
Huawei has just scored a major win by securing #1 status for the Pura 80 Ultra in the latest DxOMark camera rankings, and may now hope for another in the Unified Patent Court (UPC).
Transsion has been brought before the court’s Munich division to contest a lawsuit asserting that it has used some of Huawei’s technology without permission.
Few Chinese reports go into much detail regarding the actual IP in question, although the typically reliable leaker Fixed Focus Digital claims to have heard that it relates to video decoding technology that does indeed belong to Huawei.
It is described in the European patent EP2725797 (or “Offset Decoding Device, Offset Encoding Device, Image Filtering Device”) and apparently functions to avoid stuttering and distortion in order to improve the final product of video playback on display devices.
This is not the first time Huawei has taken Transsion to court regarding stolen IP: a 2019 case worth damages of up to 20 million yuan (nearly $2 million today) saw the former accuse the latter of stealing its theme wallpaper copyright.
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