The Taiwanese phone maker is reportedly not going to make its own devices for the Indian market and leave it to three local players.
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Spotify and Wixen settle $1.6 billion lawsuit
Spotify is working on paying money to the people who deserve the credit in making all of the music you stream from Spotify.
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Qualcomm extending lower licensing rates to appease regulators and OEMs
The San Diego-based semiconductors company is conceding some ground to smartphone manufacturers by offering a patents package at a lower price. But it doesn't mean that flagship phones will cost less soon.
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Qualcomm 1Q18 earnings beat the street, but there are plenty of aches
Given the stumbling blocks Qualcomm has in front of it, such as Apple, Chinese regulators and grabby investors, the company has done a good job with the bottom line.
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Qualcomm 1Q18 earnings beat the street, but there are plenty of aches
Given the stumbling blocks Qualcomm has in front of it, such as Apple, Chinese regulators and grabby investors, the company has done a good job with the bottom line.
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Apple settles with Immersion with licensing for Taptic Engine tech
The iPhone-maker was accused of infringing on patented haptics technologies for use in Force Touch, 3D Touch and the Taptic Engine.
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Samsung joins HEVC Advance to license out and in H.265 tech
Samsung is now playing with Hollywood's codec of choice for compressing 4K video. As a large TV and smartphone maker, it's a big deal.
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LG taking BLU to task over licensing for five LTE patents
It has filed complaints with the US legal system as well as the International Trade Commission. BLU is said to have ignored negotiation requests.
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Apple 1Q17 earnings meets expectations to break superficial records
Revenue was up, margins and net gains were down. Apple continued to exhibit strong peaks in services while seeing a spike in Mac and iPhone sales.
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Qualcomm says it’s still working with Apple for iPhone chips
The semiconductor company is addressing multiple allegations made by Apple, the FTC and Korean regulators in its 1Q17 earnings call.
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Apple v. Qualcomm: two new suits in China for $145 million
This time around, Samsung hasn't infringed upon Apple's patents, but Infinite Loop is still the plaintiff against chipmaker Qualcomm.
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Following FTC, Apple sues Qualcomm over antitrust investigation
Infinite Loop claims that the San Diego-based chipmaker withheld $1 billion in royalty payments in the midst of an investigation into licensure practices.
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Gionee and Qualcomm sign patent licensing agreement for cellular technologies
Along with the announcement of the M2017, Gionee is also taking the time to promote that it can play nice and fair with Qualcomm in order to play with one of its latest chips.
The Chinese manufacturer and the San Diego-based chipmaker have signed a patent licensing agreement that allows the former to use the latter’s technologies for 3G and LTE technologies in devices intended for the Chinese market. Royalties were defined in a rectification plan Qualcomm submitted to China’s National Development and Reform Commission.
The semiconductor company has been able to ink deals with the top ten Chinese OEMs. It has also engaged in a global legal feud with Meizu over a lack of such a deal, claiming infringement on its patents.
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OPPO licenses Qualcomm patents in China
With patent disputes piling on and on throughout the years, here’s a respite courtesy of Qualcomm and OPPO.OPPO has licensed Qualcomm’s 3G and 4G technology patents for use in China, which means that we’ll see a whole bunch of Snapdragon processors in future devices.Qualcomm laid patent infringement complaints against competitor Meizu about a month ago in Beijing and ...
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Huawei sues Samsung for infringing on user software and 4G patents
It’s unusual to see a Chinese firm sue other companies for stealing their unique designs — partly because those other companies copy each other at rapid pace that you can’t really tell who came up with what in the first place. It’s mostly due to loose regulations in the country guiding intellectual property.But it’s Huawei suing Korean manufacturer Samsung in both the US and China with ...
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