Sentences with phrase «patent licensing revenue»

Windows Phone revenue increased $ 1.2 billion, including an increase in patent licensing revenue and sales of Windows Phone licenses.

With Microsoft earning between $ 1B and $ 2B in patent license revenue made from royalties, this business is one of their most profitable.

Not exact matches

Following news that Nokia settled its patent litigation with Apple, which is now licensing patents from its rival, analysts quickly moved to figure out the revenue impact.

While Qualcomm earns the bulk of its revenue from selling chips that power smartphones, it books most of its profit by licensing its portfolio of thousands of cellular patents.

Last year, Intellectual Ventures disclosed that it had generated $ 2 billion in license revenues from its patents.

Microsoft has asserted for quite some time that they own patents that are being infringed upon by the Android operating system — and has often given the suggestion that it could all be made better if licensing was in place (read: Microsoft gains a revenue stream from something other than actually innovating their own mobile products).

«Compensation, consideration, or fee paid for a license or privilege to use an intellectual property (brand, copyright, patent, process) or a natural resource (fishing, hunting, mining), computed usually as a percentage of revenue or profit realized from the use.

In high technology, standards - essential patents are key for companies looking to generate revenue by licensing out IP.

Your lawyers would argue that Lodsys is willing to license the patent at a 0.575 % rate and that your revenues are low, so damages should be small, but none of that is a legal limit for the court.

Non Practicing Entity (NPE) = Company which derives the majority of its total revenue from Patent Licensing activities.

Goodlatte's decision to drop the provision is a victory for IBM and Microsoft, which have stacks of old software patents that provide licensing revenue even as their product lines sputter.

For Qualcomm, the deal means additional revenue for its licensing business and shows that the company is making slow but steady progress in its effort to get Chinese phone makers to pay patent royalties in the wake of an antitrust settlement there.

Swirlds has licensed the Hedera Hashgraph Platform to use their patented technology, for which they will receive 10 % of the platform's revenue as a licensing fee.

But even without its own devices or brand on the market, Nokia still stands to gain significant revenues from the smartphone business through patents it has licensed, rather than sold, to Microsoft: $ 1.65 bn of the $ 5.44 bn purchase price gives Microsoft a 10 - year non-exclusive licence to Nokia's smartphone patents — some of which it has been using in litigation against various Android smartphone makers — and reciprocal rights related to Here mapping services.

Thanks to patent licensing, Microsoft already makes most of its mobile operating system revenue from Android, and I'm not the only one who's noticed that Microsoft, via its Nokia subsidiary, is already making Android phones.

Designing critical business applications by using Qlikview, SQL, etc., to provide seamless business intelligence support to one of the world's largest patent portfolios with over $ 7.8 B in annual licensing revenue.