The post Huawei must pay $10.5 million for allegedly violating 4G LTE patents appeared first on BardTech . Huawei’s expansion into the United States was almost a certainty until AT&T suddenly pulled out of the deal. Citing “ political pressure ,” AT&T called off the deal to carry the Huawei Mate 10 Pro and since then, Huawei has had little to no presence in the country. Still, that hasn’t stopped a Texas jury from finding Huawei and its U.S. subsidiary guilty of infringing upon multiple 4G LTE patents held by PanOptis. Huawei has been ordered to pay a $10.5 million fine, although the company is expected to appeal the ruling. PanOptis filed its complaint in October of 2017, claiming that Huawei had infringed upon their patents for several years. Multiple attempts to organize a meeting with Huawei proved fruitless between 2014 and 2016. PanOptis presented Huawei with fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms to license the patents, although the company alleg...