Nokia owns a significant portion of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), including High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC/H.265), Versatile Video Codec (VVC/H.266), Advanced Video Codec, and a lot more. This allows the company to license these technologies to streaming sites like Netflix or hardware companies like Acer, ASUS, and more. These companies can then sell their products with the above codecs, provided they obtain licenses on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms from Nokia.
In this case, however, the two companies failed to show sufficient willingness to negotiate or accept fair licensing terms under FRAND for the use of Nokia's essential video coding patents. As a result, the Munich I Regional Court granted Nokia injunctions against Acer and ASUS, effectively preventing them from directly offering, marketing, importing, possessing for commercial purposes, or selling infringing PCs in Germany.