Archive · 19 Dec 2025
Acer, Asus, Hisense Win UK Court Ruling in Nokia Patent Dispute
Acer, Asus, and Hisense are in a legal fight with Nokia about some technology that helps with video streaming.
The court in London decided that Nokia has to let these companies use the technology for now, but they have to pay Nokia a small amount for each device they sell.
The court decided that the payment should be $0.365 per device, which is more than what Acer and Asus wanted to pay but less than what Nokia wanted.
Nokia is not happy with this decision and plans to appeal it.
This is part of a bigger problem in the tech industry where companies often fight over how much they should pay to use each other's technology.
Acer, Asus, and Hisense won a court ruling against Nokia in a patent dispute over video coding technology.
The court ordered an interim licence fee of $0.365 per device, between what the companies proposed and what Nokia sought.
Nokia plans to appeal the decision, potentially taking it to the UK Supreme Court.
English courts can set global FRAND terms following a 2020 UK Supreme Court ruling.
Similar disputes have been resolved with interim licences in other cases, such as Amazon vs. Nokia and Lenovo vs. Ericsson.
- Who
- Acer, Asus, Hisense, Nokia
- What
- A patent dispute over video coding technology
- When
- Thursday (specific date not mentioned)
- Where
- London's High Court
- Why
- To determine the terms of a patent licence
- Companies Involved
- Acer, Asus, Hisense, Nokia
- Court
- London's High Court
- Technology in Dispute
- Video coding technology
- Interim Licence Fee
- $0.365 per device
- Nokia's Proposed Fee
- $0.69 per unit
- Acer and Asus' Proposed Fee
- $0.03 per unit
- Judge
- James Mellor
- Appeal Status
- Nokia plans to appeal