Recently, the National Intellectual Property Administration ruled that all the patents involved in the lawsuit were invalid. The Shanghai Intellectual Property Court ruled to reject all the lawsuits initiated by the Spanish company Fractus against the domestic mobile phone manufacturer OPPO. Following the Dutch court's ruling that Xiaomi mobile phones did not infringe Fractus' antenna patents, Fractus' aggressive attack strategy against domestic mobile phone manufacturers suffered a disastrous failure in China.
The Spanish company Fractus is one of the most active NPEs in the past ten years. From 2009 to 2019, Fractus frequently initiated patent lawsuits at home and abroad. The defendant's terminal manufacturers include Samsung, HTC, LG, Blackberry and other international companies, and successfully forced almost all of the defendants reached an agreement with them. Samsung, which was the only one who did not agree to the settlement, was sentenced to pay Fractus tens of millions of dollars in damages for patent infringement in May 2011.
In recent years, with the rise of Chinese mobile phone manufacturers, Fractus has gradually targeted Chinese mobile phone manufacturers. In addition to OPPO, Huawei, Xiaomi, Vivo, and ZTE have all been its targets. However, in recent years, OPPO and other domestic manufacturers' patent strength and ability to respond to intellectual property risks have improved rapidly. This time OPPO has achieved a comprehensive victory in the confrontation with Fractus. It has proved with facts and tangible achievements that the value of Chinese mobile phone manufacturers have increased their investment in intellectual property rights and strengthening intellectual property team building.