Looks like Intel and Nvidia have buried the hatchet to enter into a new multi-year cross licensing deal. Starting January 18, 2011 both the companies will enter into a comprehensive 6-year agreement that will allow both the companies to use each other’s’ patents and also resolve all the pending litigations and other disputes. To […]
Microsoft licenses ARM architecture, will get closer access to ARM IP
Microsoft today announced that they’ve entered into a new licensing agreement with ARM. Although complete details of the agreement are confidential, Microsoft did confirm that they’ll get closer access to ARM’s IP that will help them to make better devices based-on ARM platform. Microsoft and ARM are partners since 1997 where they’ve worked together […]
Motorola and RIM enter into a cross-licensing agreement
Motorola and Research in Motion have announced to enter into a Settlement and License Agreement that ends any ongoing litigations between both the companies and allows them to share licenses of various patent rights of common technologies like 2G, 3G, 4G, 802.11 and wireless email. Furthermore, RIM has also agreed to pay an up-front […]
Microsoft and HTC enter into a patent agreement
Microsoft just announced that they have entered into a patent agreement with HTC. The patent agreement covers all HTC Android phones and under the agreement terms, HTC will pay an undisclosed sum of royalty to Microsoft. This doesn’t look to help HTC’s case with Apple but they can be rest assured about not facing […]
Microsoft and Amazon enter into a cross-license agreement
Microsoft and Amazon have agreed to enter into a patent cross-licensing agreement. With the agreement in place, both companies will have access to patents from a broad range of products and technology. The intrinsic details are kept confidential but Microsoft has confirmed that Amazon will pay them an undisclosed amount as per the agreement. […]
Samsung, SanDisk renew chip licensing agreement
Samsung and SanDisk have announced their renewal of NAND flash memory license agreement. Though both the companies haven’t revealed the intrinsic agreement details, Samsung will have an upper hand as they’ll pay half the royalty amount that they pay currently. Samsung is the largest NAND flash memory maker and pays almost $350 million in […]