Articles tagged with: Patents and CDMA

Qualcomm and Broadcom Wave a Paper and Declare "Peace For Our Time"

..AX) licensing revenue model. Broadcom and Qualcomm have also agreed not to assert patents against each other for their respective integrated circuit products and certain other products and services, while Broadcom agrees not to assert its patent more

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Nokia and Qualcomm to Work Together on 3G Phones

..okia and Qualcomm, who have spent much of the past few years very publicly fighting over their patents have hugged and made up - and are planning to work together to develop UMTS mobile devices, initially for North America. The companies intend  more

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Alvarion and Huawei Join WiMAX Patents Group

..learwire, Intel, and Samsung Electronics. As a result, it is expected that licensing terms for patents pertaining to WiMAX, including the associated royalty rates will be more predictable, transparent, and at lower cost. Furthermore the WiMAX p more

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New Devices Will Challenge Mobile Royalty Levels

The status quo of mobile phone licensing today is that royalties are levied for access to patents that are essential to the mobile standard being incorporated in each device. For a multimode WCDMA and GSM device, the average cumulative royalty rate is 12.2%. As the relative value of new components such as advanced displays and, more importantly, software, increases in the average device, many companies are questioning the fairness of current licensing models.  more

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