Espoo – The mobile phone maker Nokia and HTC have settled a long-running patent dispute. HTC will pay the Finnish company in the future for the use of his inventions, the companies announced on Friday. Thus all patent lawsuits would settled. In addition, Nokia and HTC want to therefore explore a technical cooperation.
The exact terms of the deal remained secret. Nokia had prevailed in recent months in several patent process -., And thus the scope for HTC still further concentrated
Since 2012 Nokia complained against several competitors. The charge: The violation of a total of 45 patents. The company still draws on many years at the top of the mobile phone business by a rich supply of protected inventions.
In the mobile industry has been running for several years, a large patent conflict, in which many devices using the Google Android operating system are in their sights. The sharpest battle will be fought here from iPhone company Apple and the smartphone market leader Samsung. Nokia had reached an agreement with Apple as early as 2011 on a patent deal – and silvered some of his inventions
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