Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Settlement

Summary:

• Huawei and Qualcomm right now introduced a multi-year, broad patent license settlement that features cross licenses to the businesses’ patent portfolios throughout a spread of expertise fields, together with 5G, compute, AI, and networking, along with Qualcomm’s buy of sure Huawei U.S. patents within the areas of compute, AI, networking, and different applied sciences.
• This settlement not solely demonstrates the worth of Huawei’s improvements, but in addition acknowledges Qualcomm’s foundational contributions to fashionable communication applied sciences.

[Shenzhen, China, October 5, 2026] Huawei and Qualcomm right now introduced a multi-year, broad patent license settlement that features cross licenses to the businesses’ patent portfolios throughout a spread of expertise fields, together with 5G, compute, AI, and networking, along with Qualcomm’s buy of sure Huawei U.S. patents within the areas of compute, AI, networking, and different applied sciences. This transaction will shut following receipt of the required regulatory approvals. The settlement displays the businesses’ shared dedication to mental property rights and to licensing practices in line with honest, cheap and non-discriminatory (FRAND) ideas.

“Huawei’s a long time of sustained capital allocation in basic R&D have pushed innovation and progress in cellular communications and different expertise fields. Huawei’s broad contributions to the 4G/5G requirements, such because the near-physical-limit sign transmission expertise utilizing polar codes, have established Huawei’s management within the cellular communications business, and constantly reworked the best way individuals talk and reside,” mentioned Alan Fan, Huawei’s Chief Intellectual Property Officer. “This settlement not solely demonstrates the worth of Huawei’s improvements, but in addition acknowledges Qualcomm’s foundational contributions to fashionable communication applied sciences.”

“Qualcomm has invested in foundational wi-fi applied sciences which have enabled successive generations of cellular innovation and earned broad recognition throughout the worldwide wi-fi business. This settlement reaffirms business recognition of Qualcomm’s 5G expertise management and the success of Qualcomm’s 5G SEP licensing program,” mentioned John Han, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm Technology Licensing. “This settlement likewise displays Qualcomm’s recognition of Huawei’s continued innovation and mental property in 5G and different expertise fields.”