IT Home reported on January 29 that in 2023, due to losing the patent dispute with Nokia, OPPO, OnePlus and others had to suspend their business in multiple European markets. After a few months, with OPPO and Nokia announcing the signing of a global patent licensing agreement last week, OnePlus has now returned to the affected countries.
Whistleblower Max Jambor found that OnePlus Germany's official website has begun to sell the foldable phone OnePlus Open, and the pre-order page for OnePlus 12 and OnePlus 12R has also been launched, marking OnePlus's official return to the German market.
IT Home noticed that the German official websites of OPPO and vivo still show information that their products are not sold in the market, and these** also have no product list at all. However, considering that OPPO and Nokia have just reached an agreement, it is expected that the two companies will also resume sales in Germany in the coming days.
This patent dispute arguably hit Oppo the hardest, as the sales ban came into effect just before the release of its flagship Find X6 Pro phone. While the Find X7 Ultra has recently been available in China, Oppo told Android Authority last week that they still have no plans to bring the phone to Europe due to a patent agreement with Nokia.