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Ericsson hits Apple with lawsuit, demands iPhone sales block
by Sean Keach 27 February 2015 |
Ericsson has filed a lawsuit against Apple in hopes of resolving a fierce legal battle over telecoms patent licenses. The Swedish company claims that Apple’s mobile products have allegedly infringed its patents. These patents are claimed to be essential to 2G and 4G/LTE network standards.
The suit specifically deals with Apple’s refusal to accept Ericsson’s offer to have a court decide appropriate terms for a licensing deal regarding the patents in question.
This goes back to January when Ericsson filed a complained with the US International Trade Commission requesting that it bar Apple from selling the supposedly infringing products in the states.
A second complaint to the ITC was also filed, again demanding a retail ban, as well as requesting that damages for infringing the patents be paid.
According to the company, Apple’s license agreement with Ericsson expired in January, which then led to the complaint.
Apple subsequently sued Ericsson on January 12 claiming that the patents were not essential, and that Ericsson was demanding far too much money in the form of royalties. Ericsson offered to work out appropriate royalties in the US courts but Apple refused to comply, resulting in today’s lawsuit against the Cupertino, California-based company.
According to Reuters, Ericsson is demanding somewhere in the region of $250-750 million annually. That figure is based on estimated handset sales, with royalty payments worked out on a per-handset basis.
It’s worth noting that Apple is currently the world’s most valuable company, worth over double the second place entrant Exxon Mobil. Its value in terms of market capitalisation is somewhere around $760 billion, so paying off the Ericsson royalties wouldn’t exactly break the bank.
It’s also important to mention that Ericsson is the world’s leading mobile network manufacturer, ahead of second-place Huawei and third-place Nokia.
Ericsson revenue accrued through licensing intellectual property in 2014 amounted to some $1.18 billion, so this is big business for the company.
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It has spread across 3 more countries..
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Ericsson Sues Apple in Europe Over Phone Patent Royalties
Adam Ewing
2:12 PM HKT
May 8, 2015
Ericsson AB said it sued Apple Inc. in three countries as it ratcheted up a global licensing battle between the companies.
The suits in Germany, the U.K. and the Netherlands add to U.S. filings seeking a patent-licensing agreement for technologies fundamental to the way mobile devices communicate and for intellectual property related to user interfaces, batteries and operating systems. Apple continues to sell products globally without a license from Ericsson, the wireless-network maker said Friday.
“Everybody needs to take a license for the technologies we are providing to them,” Kasim Alfalahi, Ericsson’s chief intellectual property officer, said in a phone interview from the company’s Stockholm headquarters. “It’s a very serious thing, regardless of who the company is.”
Ericsson shares jumped as much as 6.3 percent and advanced 3.9 percent to 94.25 kronor at 10:43 a.m. in Stockholm, giving the company a market value of 310 billion kronor ($38 billion).
The issue has split the technology industry between those who have created some of the basic ways phones operate and those that use the technology in complex devices.
Apple had been paying royalties to Ericsson before a license expired in mid-January. When talks over renewal failed, the companies sued each other, seeking court rulings on whether Ericsson’s royalty demands on fundamental technology were fair and reasonable.
An Apple representative in the U.K. didn’t return a call and e-mail seeking comment.
‘Abusive’ Practices
In its complaint against Ericsson in January, Apple said the price of today’s electronics are driven by things like design, operating system and touch capabilities that are unique to each product. Apple said Ericsson “seeks to exploit its patents to take the value of these cutting-edge Apple innovations” and accused the company of “abusive licensing practices.”
Ericsson offered to have an arbitrator determine the proper rates, while Apple refused to promise that it would abide by any decision, Alfalahi said.
While Apple’s iPhone and iPad have won over users in recent years, Ericsson helped pioneer the mobile-device market with its handsets in the 1990s. The company sold its mobile-phone business to Sony Corp. in February 2012, five years after Apple introduced the iPhone, which is now its largest revenue source.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news[....]hone-patent-royalties-i9f7h7r9
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