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LG Sues TCL in Germany over LTE Patents

2019/11/11

LG Electronics has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against TCL in Germany for allegedly infringing upon its LTE-related patents.
 
The South Korean electronics maker on November 10 accused its Chinese rival of allegedly applying three of LG's LTE standard essential patents onto its feature phones and smartphones without permission.
 
LG filed the lawsuits at district courts in the German cities of Mannheim and Dusseldorf.
 
The company began sending warnings to TCL back in 2016 and had since sent numerous requests for a licensing agreement to be negotiated but the Chinese company refused, LG said.
 
The Korean company previously had a LTE patent dispute with US handset maker BLU in 2017 and is currently in the midst of another dispute with French smartphone maker Wiko over the same issue.
 
LG ended its dispute with BLU after both companies came to a licensing agreement. For its legal stoush with Wiko, the Korean company won a trial earlier this year in Germany that was in relation to the same three patents in question for the LG-TCL dispute.
 
Source: IPR Daily



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