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SAMSUNG SAID IT had signed a long-term cross-licence deal with Google in a move to help the South Korean technology firm stave off potential patent disputes in the future.
The move comes as the South Korean firm is engaged in a series of long-running copyright infringement rows with Apple over technology and design in the firms’ smartphones and tablets.
Samsung said in a statement Monday that its agreement with US Internet search giant Google will cover the firms’ existing patents as well as those filed over the next ten years.
It said it would cover “a broad range of technologies and business areas,” without elaborating further.
“By working together on agreements like this, companies can reduce the potential for litigation and focus instead on innovation,” Allen Lo, Google’s deputy general counsel for patents, said in the statement.
Samsung said the latest deal would pave the way for deeper collaboration on research and development.
“Samsung and Google are showing the rest of the industry that there is more to gain from cooperating than engaging in unnecessary patent disputes,” said Ahn Seung-Ho, the head of Samsung’s intellectual property centre.
Almost all of Samsung’s smartphones and tablet computers are powered by the Android operating system made by Google.
But Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility and the rollout of its own Nexus mobile devices raised questions that the two partners may soon directly compete against each other.
Also happening today, Samsung agreed to pay Swedish electronics company Ericsson $650 million (€475 million) along with years of royalties to end a technology license spat.
The company had sued Samsung in 2012 on the grounds that it had infringed patents involving technology for clearer voice transmission, touchscreen functions and network efficiency.
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Thanks Adam – I think my subconscious was getting too excited at the thought of good weather!
spelling mistake, ” between 23-237c ” 23 is optimistic enough but 237 is just mistake
AccuWeather.com shows a completely different story, with a continuation of the cloudy, showery, occasionally sunny mix we have had for the last month.
My post was deleted. Obviously they think I am a spammer posting links! Sorry :)
Oh there it is. Obviously it’s my cookies, oops sorry :)
The sun ain’t cooperating here in Ashford. :-(
Thats right,dash our hopes
I love summer in Ireland, it’s my favourite day of the year….
And Aoife, I’ve never had hang sandwiches before….mmmmm, they sound really interesting!! give us the ingredients, go on! :)
Oh dash it, here I had fond images of hanging bread on the line to be toasted by the sun whilst a little choir of angels sing their joy at the brightness of the day! ;). Thanks for educating me the two Aoife’s, it would be a sad day when you don’t learn something new!
Forgive my pessimist outlook but since April Ive been waiting for a few consecutive days of sunshine. To no avail, I take any weather forecast with a pinch of salt as no one seems to get it right.
Tsk, tsk, predictive text .. ‘hang sangwiches’ they sound even better then hang sandwiches…I imagine a little angelic choir figures somewhere with the sangwiches!
Hey Kathy, it was a joke about what some people call ‘ham sandwiches’ ;)
A pretty well-known joke-spelling/pronunciation based on some country pronunciation of the word. (I don’t know where from or if anyone ever really says it for real.)
I need to move. I know 80*F is hot there, but we’re averaging over 100*F here in Texas.
Check temperature for Friday…20 – 14*C???
So where’s this heatwave Mr O’Donnell?
Not going to happen. 16 degeees and raining for Saturday. I don’t know why anyone takes this Canadian guy seriously. Pluse he’s a climatologist (very long term stiuff) not a meterologist..
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