Visitors view the Huawei exhibition at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 2025.
Arjun Kharpal | CNBC
BEIJING — HP, the U.S.-based personal computing and printing company, has entered into a multi-year global licensing agreement with Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei for selected WiFi patents, the firms said Wednesday.
The agreement underscores the international acceptance of Huawei’s technology despite the United States blacklisting the company in 2019, which limited its access to American suppliers such as Google.
The deal follows a patent dispute involving HP, Huawei and other parties that culminated last autumn in an arrangement granting the U.S. company access to a portfolio of roughly 2,000 patents related to wireless connectivity. Huawei was a founding participant in the patent pool, known as Sisvel WiFi 6.
The new cross‑licensing arrangement includes valuable reciprocal patent rights from HP, said Steven Geiszler, who represented Huawei in the negotiations. Geiszler, a former senior in‑house intellectual property counsel for Huawei for nearly ten years, established his own practice in April, with Huawei as his primary client.
HP is slated to report its earnings Thursday morning local time in Beijing. The company was spun off as an independent entity in 2015, following the division of the former Hewlett‑Packard Company into two separate businesses.
