Court battle ends, Apple to pay Nokia royalties

14 June, 2011
Nokia has just announced it signed a patent license agreement, which settles all the patent litigation between the companies. Apple will make a one-time payment to Nokia and both sides will withdraw...

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  • 14 Jun 2011

Anonymous, 14 Jun 2011why shouldnt they have license agreements for Android devic... moreYes, all Android manufacturers have cross-license agreements with Nokia (and each other). The ones with the most R&D on the area (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola) earn money from their patents; the ones with the least R&D (Samsung, LG, now Apple) pay to use the others' patents. This is how things have always been; Apple just wanted a free ride.

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    • 14 Jun 2011

    iJustgotPNWED by nokia!

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      • 14 Jun 2011

      AnonD-4690, 14 Jun 2011now please 1ghz running symbian cameraphone with aluminum b... moreanodized aluminum is old, take a look at this one Graphene – Nokia’s future super-material...
      http://mynokiablog.com/2011/06/14/graphene-%E2%80%93-strongest-material-ever-tested-nokia%E2%80%99s-future-super-material/

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        • NHZ
        • 14 Jun 2011

        is correct that the royalty settlement applies to iphone and ipad

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          • 14 Jun 2011

          Why?, 14 Jun 2011"Now would everyone just focus on making better smartp... moreYes exactly.Nokia mobiles were best but now since symbian is ending its success rate is coming down.We don't know when nokia starts making smartphones and becomes leader once again.

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            • 14 Jun 2011

            if the n900 was at least 2mm thiner and it's screen is 3mm and had tegra2 as it's cpu,then it would be the smartest smartphone

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              • 14 Jun 2011

              If I am not mistaken the royalties include iphone AND ipad.Yeah Nokia

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                • 14 Jun 2011

                Now would everyone just focus on making better smartphones?

                Better to say. Now would apple stop to steal technologies and focus on making smartphone(not ipod with call function)?

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                  • 14 Jun 2011

                  AnonD-315, 14 Jun 2011Nokia is Boss! Dnt Forget it! (Slap cross apple's face!) Bt... moreim also waiting for a meego device. i love my n900. surely there is no match of n900 even after 2 years of its release.e7 is just an n8 waith keyboard nothing more than that.i think i wud also get my hands on nokia's windows phone 7.5( mango) or 8.

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                    • 14 Jun 2011

                    LOL Nokia is still the Big Boss, Apple has to bow for Nokia........LOL Apple FAIL!!!!

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                      • 14 Jun 2011

                      OMG now i knw "another" reason why nokia didnt go for Android. Apple wud like other firms kick their As$. go nokia go

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                        joelpogi, 14 Jun 2011why does apple have to pay for the patent, licenses and for... moreIt's part of the agreement. It's the royalty and it's similar to HTC paying Microsoft US $5 for every Android device they sell.

                        http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-android-phone-2011-5

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                          • 14 Jun 2011

                          Now I think that the next iphone will cost more because of this...

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                            AnonD-40, 14 Jun 2011You guys know why Apple settled? It's to slow down Android.... morewhy does apple have to pay for the patent, licenses and for every iphone unit sold?? what is the because?

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                              • 14 Jun 2011

                              now please 1ghz running symbian cameraphone with aluminum body and xenon?

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                                AnonD-1311, 14 Jun 2011Now Steve Jobs won't have to worry about placing an antenna... moreLol.... zomg your comment is totally hilarious

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                                  • 14 Jun 2011

                                  All quake in your pants, Nokia/Windows is coming at you and you would be so foolish to not even think so. Microsoft never chuck money at something that fails do they? And lets be honest how long can Apple get away with making the same old identical cr@p? It's only a matter of time....

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                                    • 14 Jun 2011

                                    nokia 1 - apple 0

                                    haha

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                                      • 14 Jun 2011

                                      "Now would everyone just focus on making better smartphones?"
                                      Go ahead, be brave and say: Now would Nokia just focus on making better smartphones? I know you wanted to.

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                                        • 14 Jun 2011

                                        Anonymous, 14 Jun 2011why shouldnt they have license agreements for Android devic... moreWe'll see in the coming months. It could be that those licenses only covers devices that were running on Symbian before these OEMs started making phones running on Android.

                                        Read my link below.


                                        http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/06/apple-and-nokia-settle-patent-dispute.html