Sentences with phrase «smartphone license patents»

Nokia has singed a deal with Huawei, enabling the Finnish company to have access to the Chinese groups» smartphone license patents.

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The FTC, which works with the Justice Department to enforce antitrust law, said that Qualcomm used its dominance in supplying baseband processors used in smartphones and tablets to extract elevated royalties for patents in what the complaint dubbed a «no license - no chips» policy.

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.

The payment comes as Qualcomm's patent licensing business is increasingly under attack from government regulators and smartphone makers.

According to the report, Amazon is also looking at acquiring or licensing relevant patents that would protect its smartphone from lawsuits that currently almost every major player like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, HTC, Nokia, Motorola and others are engaged in courtrooms across the world.

Qualcomm, which is the biggest maker of chips for smartphones, gets about 2/3 of its profits from licensing its wireless patents.

I also believe that smartphone - related patent licensing costs, relating to standard - essential as well as non-standard-essential patents, must come down.

Similarly, by some estimates the average smartphone leverages more than 200,000 active patents from more than 30,000 patent holders, the largest being a handful of companies like Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Nokia, all of which have been willing to license their patents to all smartphone OEMs.

The procurement deals would include the global risk management and forex trading operations it runs out of London as well as patent licensing fees which Huawei, the world's No 3 smartphone maker, pays out to British technology firms such as chip designer ARM, now part of Japan's Softbank.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi and Finnish technology company Nokia on Wednesday announced a business collaboration agreement and a multi-year patent licensing arrangement, the latter of which will allow the companies to cross-license each other's standard essential patents.

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.

The licensing issue relates to fundamental wireless patents Qualcomm owns that apply to all smartphones regardless of whether they actually use Qualcomm chipsets.