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Chinese smartphone maker Oppo and its sub-brand OnePlus<\/a> have halted sales of smartphones in Germany after losing a patent lawsuit with Nokia. <\/p>\n

Nokia has accused the companies of using its patented technology for processing 4G and 5G signals without paying for a license, reports European patent news site Juve Patent<\/em><\/a>, and won an injunction to halt sales last Friday in a German court. (For clarification: this is Nokia the Finnish telecoms giant, a massive player in European telecoms equipment. Nokia the mobile brand is owned by a separate company, also Finnish, named HMD Global.)<\/p>\n

Oppo and OnePlus have complied with this order, as evidenced by changes to their German web stores. <\/p>\n

Oppo\u2019s site<\/a> now makes no mention of hardware devices at all, including phones and smartwatches. Compare this to the company\u2019s UK site<\/a>, which features a link to Oppo\u2019s store and various product information on the homepage. OnePlus has similarly stripped back its German site<\/a> (again: compare to the UK site<\/a>), which shows no results for phones or watches in its store. You can find your way to a product description with a little navigation, but clicking the \u201cbuy now\u201d button sends you straight to a 404 error page. <\/p>\n

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OnePlus\u2019 website in Germany makes it impossible to buy a smartphone from the company. <\/em><\/figcaption>Image: The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n

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In a press statement given to The Verge<\/em>, OnePlus\u2019 director of communications Spenser Blank confirmed that the company had halted sales in Germany and blamed \u201cNokia\u2019s demand for an unreasonably high fee\u201d for patents as the reason for the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are actively working with the relevant parties to resolve the ongoing legal matter,\u201d said Blank. \u201cWhile sales and marketing of the relevant products are on hold, OnePlus remains committed to the German market and will continue our operations. Meanwhile, OnePlus users in Germany can continue to enjoy our products and related services such as regular software updates and our after-sales service as before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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