Nokia, Kyocera End Patent Dispute"

STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia Oyj Tuesday said it has resolved its patent dispute with Kyocera Corp. by entering into a patent license agreement.

Under the terms of the agreement, Kyocera is licensed under Nokia's essential patents, and some additional patents, relating to CDMA, personal digital cellular, or PDC, and personal handyphone system, or PHS, standards.

Kyocera will pay royalties to Nokia for all Kyocera CDMA mobile phone and module products.

Reciprocally, Nokia is licensed under all of Kyocera's essential patents, and some additional patents, relating to all standards and covering all Nokia mobile phone, module and infrastructure products, Nokia said.

The parties have been involved since February 2004 in a series of patent disputes relating to mobile phone products. This license agreement resolves all pending litigation between the parties without contingencies of any kind.

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Posted to the site on 10th January 2006