{"id":19963,"date":"2025-06-27T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19963\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:24:09","slug":"google-pixel-7-sales-banned-in-japan-pixel-8-and-9-might-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19963\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pixel 7 sales banned in Japan, Pixel 8 and 9 might follow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google just lost the right to sell its Google Pixel 7 series after a recent patent dispute with Korean mobile phone company Pantech. According to a district court in Japan, Google was found guilty of infringing a patent related to LTE connectivity.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

Pantech filed a lawsuit against Google, arguing that the tech giant used the exact same technology described in a patent belonging to Pantech. The patent relates to how the LTE modem in Pixel phones communicates with the cell towers. The patent, however, wasn’t licensed under fair and reasonable conditions.<\/p>\n

As a result, the Tokyo court ruled that Pixel 7 phones should be removed from the shelves since Google refused to cooperate. The company refused to pay a reasonable royalty fee and also refused to provide data on the number of Pixel 7 phones sold in Japan.<\/p>\n

The Japanese market is very important for Google because it is the second-largest smartphone vendor in the country after Apple, surpassing the likes of Samsung and Xiaomi.<\/p>\n

Pantech is now filing another lawsuit against Google, targeting the more recent Pixel 8 and Pixel 9 series, so unless the two companies reach a compromise these two might face the same fate.<\/p>\n

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