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Apple To Pay Ericsson Patent Royalties On iPhones and iPads (cio.com)
itwbennett writes: In settlement of a long-standing dispute over patents that Ericsson considers essential to the implementation of a number of mobile communications standards, including GSM, the 3G standard UMTS and LTE, Apple has agreed to pay Ericsson royalties on sales of iPhones and iPads. While the companies would not disclose further details of their agreement, Ericsson gave a hint about its value. For the full year 2015, Ericsson predicts its intellectual property rights revenue will amount to between 13 billion and 14 billion Swedish krona ($1.64 billion). In comparison, it reported IPR revenue of 10.6 billion krona for the full year 2014, including a 4.2 billion krona lump sum in settlement of a similar global dispute with Samsung Electronics.
Erickson actually paid for the R&D to create something new, unlike curved edges and a single button that Apple patented. Fuck Apple.
Ahem.
This independent Report from 2012, lists over 1200 Apple "mobile" Patents (which I'm sure has been added-to since then).
Obviously, there is a lot more than the Home Button and the Curved Corners here, eh?
Erickson actually paid for the R&D to create something new, unlike curved edges and a single button that Apple patented. Fuck Apple.
INSIGHTFUL!?!?!???
Well, I guess we see the Apple Haters are out in force on this one...