Nokia announced yesterday evening announced to have a patent and technology agreements with HTC. Part of the contractual agreement is, among other things, that all legal disputes between the two companies are set on the basis of patent infringements with immediate effect. In plain English, this means that HTC pays an unknown amount of Nokia. In addition, the two OEMs will collaborate on questions of technology, if the opportunity should offer it.
The patent agreement between Nokia and HTC follows on a large-scale wave of lawsuits Nokia's beginning in 2012. As The Verge informed the Finnish company sued then Blackberry, HTC and ViewSonic due to patent infringements (in 45 cases) before various courts around the world. The patents in question are intended to describe technologies that are practically indispensable for modern mobile devices such as the operation of mobile communication antennas, transmitters, or energy management, and software features, such as multitasking, the display of a text message conversation or the implementation of app stores.
From the official statement from Nokia and HTC is not clear under what conditions the agreements have now been made and what are the details of the agreement. An indication of the magnitude of the sum that could be in this space, The Verge supplies.The U.S. publication points out that Apple ended its own patent disputes with Nokia already in 2011. For this, the Californian company have transferred 430 million euros unique to Nokia.
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