Ericsson sues Samsung for Patent Infringement
Apple vs. Samsung, Google / Motorola vs. Microsoft, Ericsson now against Samsung - the patent wars in the mobile industry seems to have no end, despite some apparent peace signal. Ericsson now sued Samsung in the U.S., after the South Korean smartphone market leaders have also signed after two years of negotiations, no licensing agreements for relevant mobile technologies.
Similar to the dispute between Motorola and Microsoft we are talking about patents that are relevant to officially recognized cellular standards. These will be licensed on terms that are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory", short FRAND) are. Samsung have now refused to license for standards such as GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, LTE and WLAN 802.11 held by Ericsson patents under FRAND terms, says Ericsson.
Samsung has licensed the relevant patents in 2001, Ericsson and renewed this license 2009th After two years of negotiations, but it had been no new agreement and the license expired now, Ericsson said. Therefore you have the U.S. Federal District Court in the Eastern District of Texas, where the head office is located on Ericsson USA, filed a complaint (case number 6:12-cv-00895 and 6:12-cv-00894)
Ericsson holds the world claims to have 30,000 patents. So far, we have completed over 100 Vereinarungen over patent licensing with all major companies in the mobile industry. While Ericsson was always prepared to license standard-related patents on FRAND terms. But that may well be controversial, should look like such FRAND terms, the process does not last between Motorola and Microsoft to provide these FRAND licensing.
Including Samsung raises in a first reaction from the fact that Ericsson much higher license costs than previously required. These were so high that they had made a new licensing agreement for Samsung impossible. Samsung have in the past two years led negotiations with Ericsson on the basis of achieving FRAND licensing, and shall sit down now against overcharging Ericsson vigorously.
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