Qualcomm has launched a lawsuit against Transsion, one of the world’s largest smartphone makers, over patents.
As reported by IP Fray on LinkedIn, Qualcomm is suing Transsion over four non-standard essential patents. The specific patents aren’t mentioned, but this is noteworthy as Qualcomm is rarely involved in lawsuits of this nature. Generally, as the post brings out, Qualcomm leverages its chipsets and the dependency many other companies have on those chips to craft licensing deals when a patent is violated.
But, with Transsion, Qualcomm doesn’t really have that option.
As WinFuture points out, Transsion doesn’t sell any smartphones with Qualcomm chips.
Despite being the fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world in 2024 according to Statista (behind Samsung, Apple, and Xiaomi), Transsion currently largely uses chips primarily from MediaTek as well as some chips from Unisoc to power its smartphones. Snapdragon chips have been used in…
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