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Sony takes over Sony Ericsson in 1bn euro deal

...business and by gaining access to important strategic IP, notably a broad cross-licence agreement, our four-screen strategy is in place." Sony's four... Read more

27 October, 2011 by David Meyer
Sony Ericsson gives way to Sony Mobile

Sony Ericsson gives way to Sony Mobile

...ownership of mobile phone patents and gained other patent rights through a cross-licence deal with Ericsson.For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Steven Musil

Samsung sells disk drive unit to Seagate for $1.4bn

...3TB Barracuda product. Samsung and Seagate plan on "extending and enhancing" their cross-licence patent agreements as a component of the deal, while also working... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel to pay Nvidia $1.5bn in cross-licensing deal

...payment will be made on 15 January, 2016, according to the patent cross-licence agreement. "Our cross licence with Intel reflects the substantial value of... Read more

11 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

Seagate and Samsung collaborate on SSD controller

...and licensing agreement. Under this agreement, the two companies will develop and cross-licence related controller technologies for solid-state drives (SSDs). According to Seagate... Read more

13 August, 2010 by Dong Ngo

Intel, AMD spar over patent-licensing dispute

...it a letter that alleges AMD "committed a material breach of the cross-licence through the creation of the company's Globalfoundries joint venture and... Read more

17 March, 2009 by Dawn Kawamoto

Analysis: Dell and IBM could have more to come

The $16bn deal that will see Dell heavily use IBM's state-of-the-art components could be the just the precursor to the... Read more

5 March, 1999 by Martin Veitch

US Report: Lotus says no to Novell

IBM's Lotus subsidiary has made public a decision already made this year: it won't be porting its Notes/Domino 5.0 product to Novel's NetWare. Read more

29 July, 1998 by Mary Jo Foley

AMD unfazed by Intel cross-licensing threat

...memory controller. "What [Intel] neglected to [say] is that it's a cross-licence agreement, not a one-way agreement." AMD previously said Intel's... Read more

18 May, 2009 by Vivian Yeo
Microsoft's secret deals on open source

Microsoft's secret deals on open source

...details whatsoever have been published. Of course, it isn't illegal to cross-licence patents in exchange for cash or cuddles. Indeed, it's as... Read more

6 February, 2009 by Leader
Novell vows to fight Vista uptake

Novell vows to fight Vista uptake

...more with the customers, he added. "We did not sign a patent cross-licence agreement with Microsoft. That has been one of the confusion points... Read more

15 February, 2007 by Chris Duckett and Scott McKenzie

Open source comes of age

A succession of high-profile patent cases do the open source movement no harm at all by pushing the issue of software ownership into the mainstream Read more

13 March, 2006 by Matthew Broersma

Stratus allies with NEC on fault-tolerant servers

...63 percent. Under the joint product development agreement, Stratus and NEC will cross-licence technologies and collaborate on the development of future fault-tolerant servers... Read more

28 November, 2005 by Colin Barker

IBM sells LCD patents

...the Electronic Engineering Times. AU Optronics and IBM also entered into a cross licence agreement about their relative LCD patents, allowing them to share those... Read more

4 July, 2005 by Tom Espiner

Break IT with Kodak

...s reading of its patents is correct? Or will the big guys cross-licence, agreeing not to sue each other but to turn on anyone... Read more

5 October, 2004 by Leader

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