Qualcomm and Nokia: an end to the patent war

Decline patent war between Qualcomm and Nokia, which took place in the courts of three continents, has finally been ended on Wednesday. The company Nokia issued a press release, which reported the settlement of patent rights with Qualcomm, related to cellular technology GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMax, LTE, and several others. The agreement was the result of the final settlement of mutual disputes between companies, including the withdrawal of their claims Nokia package antitrust claims filed by several companies in the European Commission against Qualcomm.

According to a new 15-year contract between the companies, Nokia has agreed to license and patent royalties to Qualcomm for technology used by the company in mobile devices, Nokia and the network infrastructure equipment Nokia Siemens Networks. Furthermore, Nokia has agreed not to use any of Qualcomm technology directly against the interests of Qualcomm, thus allowing Qualcomm to integrate its own technology in Nokia chipsets Qualcomm. The financial side of the agreement includes a future payment of royalties and systematic in favor of Qualcomm. Nokia has also agreed to establish ownership of several patents in favor of Qualcomm, including a number of technologies concerning the standards WCDMA, GSM and OFDMA.

Other specifics of the financial arrangements, of course, left-over - as happens in such cases, but some analysts believed that Nokia has won in this case. Moreover, Nokia officials argue that the patent royalties to Qualcomm under the new agreement will be even lower than they had to pay under the old license.

Recall that Qualcomm chips used by a number of the world's largest manufacturers of mobile equipment and carrier equipment, including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics. Key competitors Qualcomm are Texas Instruments, Broadcom and Infineon Technologies. Nokia Qualcomm sought to reduce the rates of patent royalties from April 2007, when the previous agreement expired. Analysts estimate the size of contributions at the level of 4-5%.

Well, even a bad peace is better than a good war, but in this case, the world had a very good, judging from the fact that left both sides satisfied. Moreover, such a positive exchange did not go unnoticed by investors, leaving shares of Qualcomm at the NASDAQ in the day, climbed to 1.6%, shares of Nokia US Also closed at a level slightly higher than previous figures.

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