The company also has several
patent licensing deals in place with Android vendors that have brought in a ton of cash over the years.
Tired of waiting for the European standards system to take action on digital cellular phones, the companies holding patents in the technology have taken matters into their own hands and are signing
private patent licensing deals.
Qualcomm is looking to head into 2016 with a clean slate in China now that the company has signed
new patent licensing deals in the country.
By the way, March wasn't much better for Google with a preliminary ruling against Motorola's ITC complaint against the Xbox, Nokia's refusal to grant a license to its allegedly VP8 - essential patents, Nokia's progress toward its first
Android patent license deal, and a trial based on which Microsoft may very well win (in early June) a German injunction not only against Motorola but also its parent company, Google, with respect to Google Maps.
Xiaomi, meanwhile, has been eyeing expansion beyond emerging markets; doing so is likely to
mean patent licensing deals with some of the key players.
On Sunday, Google and Samsung, which was the company arguably most offended by Google's Motorola buy, worked out a
global patent licensing deal.
But that quarter's numbers were boosted by
a patent licensing deal that netted the company more than $ 1 billion, according to earnings reports, so it isn't an apples - to - apples comparison.
However,
every patent license deal into which Red Hat enters, even if Linux - unrelated such as in this case, encourages other patent holders to collect royalties from them.