Huawei booth at Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona in 2025.
Arjun Karpal | CNBC
BEIJING — US-based personal computing and printing company HP has entered into a multi-year global agreement to license certain WiFi patents from Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the companies announced Wednesday.
This is a sign that Huawei’s technology is being adopted outside of China, despite the US blacklisting the company in 2019 and restricting its partnerships with US suppliers such as Google.
“This is a standard-essential patent license covering Wi-Fi technology that is widely used across the industry and routine for companies that connect their products to Wi-Fi. This is not new and does not represent a broader strategic or commercial relationship, partnership, or collaboration with Huawei,” HP said.
The deal comes after a patent dispute involving HP, Huawei and other companies that resulted in an agreement last fall that gave U.S. companies access to a pool of 2,000 patents related to wireless network connectivity. Huawei was one of the founding members of a patent pool called Sisvel WiFi 6.
The latest global cross-licensing agreement includes “valuable cross-patent rights from HP,” Steven Geiszler, who represented Huawei in the negotiations, said in a statement. Geiszler, who is based in Texas, served as Huawei’s senior in-house intellectual property lawyer for nearly a decade before starting his own firm in April with Huawei as a major client.
HP is scheduled to announce its financial results on Thursday morning, Beijing time. HP was spun off as a separate company in 2015 after Hewlett-Packard Company was split into two divisions.
