Huawei’s stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 2025.Arjun Kharpal | CNBCBEIJING – U.S.-based personal computing and printing company HP has signed a multi-year global agreement to license certain WiFi patents from Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the companies announced Wednesday. It’s a sign of the adoption of Huawei’s technology outside of China, even though the US blacklisted the company in 2019, a move that prevented it from working with US suppliers such as Google. whose products connect to Wi-Fi is not new, does not represent a broader strategic or commercial relationship, partnership or collaboration with Huawei,” HP said. The agreement comes after a patent dispute involving HP, Huawei and other companies that resulted last fall in an agreement that allows the US company to access a set of 2,000 patents related to wireless network connectivity. Huawei was one of the founding members of the patent consortium, called Sisvel WiFi 6. The latest global agreement of cross-licensing includes “valuable reciprocal patent rights from HP,” Steven Geiszler, who represented Huawei in the negotiations, said in a statement. Geiszler, based in Texas, was Huawei’s senior in-house intellectual property lawyer for nearly a decade, until he created his own firm in April with Huawei as his main client. divided into two units. Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment of the most trusted name in business news.
