Cloud Computing: Apple Offered Samsung a License

Before the trial that led to Samsung being told to paid Apple over a billion dollars in damages for infringing its patents, Apple propose they cut a cross-patent license but they couldn’t agree on terms. The proposal came to light when the court unsealed some documents this week. It’s in a three-page letter dated April 30 from Apple’s IP licensing director Boris Teskler to his counterpart at Samsung Seongwoo Kim. Apple offered to license Samsung's 3G/UMTS patents on FRAND terms of 33 cents a device instead of the sky-high 2.4% of the selling price the Korean company was demanding. In return Apple would license Samsung its standards-essential UMTS patents for the same 33 cents a device.

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