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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 01:21 PM EDT |
Some of the Apple devices used Intel baseband IC's, and apparently Intel did
have an agreement with Samsung not to sue each other's customers over some set
of patents which included the "standards essential" ones in this case.
Other Apple devices use Qualcomm basebands, and Samsung cancelled their similar
agreement with Qualcomm in August 2011. Apple were well aware of this, and
contacted Samsung about licensing the patents, however, they refused to accept
Samsung's terms (which I suspect involved cross-licensing Apple's $24 worth of
trivial UI patents in return for a few cents worth of Samsung's 3G technology).
So it surprises me that Apple can walk away based solely on the Intel
agreements, when they demonstrated by contacting Samsung to open negotiations
that they knew they did not have a license for the devices that are using a
Qualcomm baseband (4S and new iPad). Or did Samsung fail to claim against these
devices - if so, maybe there was a behind the scenes gentlemen's agreement not
to attack the latest products of both companies.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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