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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.
I don't know what "IPR Revenue" is
"Intellectual Property Rights" revenue.
From the summary: " 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,..."
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"Kronor"? Sounds Borgish.
Apple was buying chips from Qualcomm that used ericdons tech. Qualcomm already pays ericson for the patent. Now Apple has to pay twice for the same product
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
"Kronor"? Sounds Borgish.
That's because we are. You will be assimilated.
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You're welcome!
Qualcomm had paid for them to use the patent, not for others to use the patent. Just because I have some windows software that does 8.3 to long name conversion on VFAT does not mean that I have the patent license to write that up in some code and give that code away for everyone else to use, despite the cost of the software including the cost of licensing the patent.
And equally, neither did Apple have the right to make a product and sell it using the patented tech they did not have a license to.
Apple and Ericsson will work together to develop 5G technology, the next generation of mobile data communication, having signed a global patent agreement that ends lawsuits in Europe and the U.S. The deal will see Apple being allowed to use Ericsson's standard essential patents as well as certain other patents held by the Swedish company while both parties have also agreed to end all ongoing litigation between them. Looking to move away from court room battles, Apple and Ericsson will now look to work more closely together collaborating in "multiple technology areas," which include 5G development, video network traffic management, and wireless network optimization. "We are pleased with this new agreement with Apple, which clears the way for both companies to continue to focus on bringing new technology to the global market, and opens up for more joint business opportunities in the future," Kasim Alfalahi, chief intellectual property officer at Ericsson, said in a statement accompanying the announcement.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Yes. "You're holding it wrong". We remember.
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Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Qualcomm had paid for them to use the patent, not for others to use the patent.
Kids, look up "patent exhaustion doctrine" for your homework.
But lets look at it objectively: why would Qualcomm pay Ericsson any license fees to use the patents if they didn't actually use the patents? They certainly don't sell any end user products only chips implementing the patent. Which are useless if you don't put them into a phone. Or did they instead pay to use cell phones made by other companies inside Qualcomm? But that would also be double dipping, not to mention it would mean all companies would have to pay fees to Ericsson for using phones - in addition to all the companies making those phones, and all the companies making the chips implementing the patented features.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Wait.
So you're saying that Qualcomm negotiated end use rights for a radio standard that only they could use, and anyone they resold chips based upon that standard is fucked? In effect, you're saying that Qualcomm negotiated with every one of their chip customers in bad faith to purchase rights from Qualcomm for something they did not own, and could not sublicense, and set them all up for a legal shit show with Ericsson?
Or, do you think it's more likely, that you don't know what you're talking about? I think I know which one I'd bet on.
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And anyone that had a brain would know that Apple *was* paying Ericsson for these patents under the FRAND terms that are required for the standards of which they are a part. Then Ericsson tried to change the license fees, which violates the "and non-discriminatory" bit of FRAND. Apple told them to get fucked, Ericsson sued, they settled it on something that Apple and Ericsson agreed to. Apple then paid up for past out-of-license use during the period of lapse.
This shit happens all the time. The only reason we're hearing about it, is because people around here get a blue-veined diamond cutter hard-on whenever Apple is mentioned in a patent court filing.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.