HP partners with U.S.-blacklisted Huawei for licensing the Chinese company's WiFi tech
It's a sign of adoption of Huawei technology outside China, despite the U.S. restricting the company from working with American suppliers such as Google.
TL;DR
- HP has signed a multi-year global agreement to license certain WiFi patents from Huawei.
- This deal indicates the adoption of Huawei's technology outside China, despite U.S. restrictions.
- The agreement is a standard-essential patent license for Wi-Fi technology.
- It follows a patent dispute that resulted in HP gaining access to a pool of 2,000 patents related to wireless network connectivity.
- The global cross-licensing agreement includes reciprocal patent rights from HP.