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US: Apple takes Ericsson to court over LTE patents

By  |  January 14, 2015

In a case filed in US District Court for Northern California, Apple has said that Ericsson is demanding excessive royalties for these patents, despite agreeing to license them on “fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory” terms.

Specifically, the iPhone maker is complaining that Ericsson is seeking royalties for the LTE technology based on the “end prices of entire LTE devices,” arguing that the royalties should be instead based on the value of the chip that includes the technology.

Both companies signed a licensing agreement back in 2008 covering many of Ericsson’s allegedly standard-essential patents. That agreement is set to expire shortly.

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