The Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 2025.<\/p>\n
Arjun Kharpal | CNBC<\/p>\n
BEIJING \u2014 U.S.-based personal computing and printing firm HP<\/a> has signed a multi-year global agreement for licensing certain WiFi patents from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, the companies announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n It’s a sign of adoption of Huawei’s technology outside China, despite the U.S. blacklisting the company<\/a> in 2019, a move that restricted it<\/a> from working with American suppliers such as Google.<\/p>\n “This is a standard-essential patent license covering Wi\u2011Fi technology – something used broadly across the industry and routine for companies whose products connect to Wi\u2011Fi. It is not new, does not represent a broader strategic or commercial relationship, partnership, or collaboration with Huawei,” HP said.<\/p>\n The deal comes after a patent dispute<\/a> involving HP, Huawei and other companies that resulted last fall in an agreement allowing the U.S. company to access a pool of 2,000 patents related to wireless network connectivity. Huawei was one of the founding members<\/a> of the patent pool, called Sisvel WiFi 6.<\/p>\n The latest global cross-licensing agreement includes “valuable reciprocal patent rights from HP,” Steven Geiszler, who represented Huawei in the negotiations, said in a statement. Texas-based Geiszler was a senior in-house intellectual property lawyer for Huawei for nearly a decade<\/a>, until he set up his own firm<\/a> in April with Huawei as his main client.<\/p>\n HP is scheduled to release earnings<\/a> Thursday morning Beijing time. HP was spun-off as a separate firm<\/a> in 2015 after Hewlett-Packard Company\u00a0was split into two units. <\/p>\n