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Group sets MPEG-4 licensing standards

...terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates. "We've met a lot of the concerns that have been... Read more

16 July, 2002 by Stefanie Olsen

Royalty fees threaten Net radio

Federal copyright regulators on Thursday set new royalty rates for online radio companies, halving previously proposed fees that had drawn... Read more

21 June, 2002 by John Borland

Rambus reveals royalty rates

Rambus executives disclosed the royalty rates it is seeking from memory manufacturers, and the numbers are higher... Read more

3 May, 2001 by Micheal Kanellos

Tech giants plan WiMax patent pool

...jointly license patents that cover WiMax in an effort to prevent costly royalty rates that might deter adoption of the wireless technology, according to a... Read more

9 June, 2008 by Steven Musil

IEEE pact to foster development of patent pools

...holders to establish joint licensing programmes through which they can offer streamlined royalty rates and licences for all of the patents in the pool. "What... Read more

8 December, 2008 by Stephanie Condon

Microsoft publishes more protocol documentation

The software giant has posted online another 14,000 pages of protocol documentation for its programs, bringing the total so far to 44,000 Read more

9 April, 2008 by Adrian Bridgwater
Why you should care about Microsoft's open-source move

Why you should care about Microsoft's open-source move

The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source? Read more

22 February, 2008 by Peter Judge

Microsoft to publish APIs and list patents

...a royalty from developers who want to use them. Microsoft said these royalty rates would be "reasonable and non-discriminatory". In practice this is likely... Read more

21 February, 2008 by Matt Loney

Rambus in EC antitrust probe

...its 'patent ambush', Rambus would not have been able to charge the royalty rates it currently does," said the Commission's statement. While Federal Trade... Read more

23 August, 2007 by Tom Espiner

EC threatens Microsoft with more fines

...or were "immediately obvious minor extensions of prior work". "Microsoft's current royalty rates for this agreement are unreasonable," said the Commission. For the "All... Read more

1 March, 2007 by Tom Espiner

FTC finds against Rambus in monopoly case

...limitations on what the FTC can and should do... We think our royalty rates are reasonable." If the FTC submits a remedy that Rambus can... Read more

3 August, 2006 by Dawn Kawamoto

Nokia explains Qualcomm 'disappointment'

...reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms. They also alleged that the company offers favourable royalty rates to customers of handsets that buy chipsets exclusively from Qualcomm. In... Read more

11 November, 2005 by Aaron Tan

RIM coughs up for JPEG patent

...Japanese entertainment company paid $16m (£9m) to freely use JPEG technology. Usual royalty rates for Forgent's JPEG patent vary between a quarter of 1... Read more

28 October, 2005 by Michael Singer

Musicians attempt to harness the Net

...labels place their albums inside the music services, even helping them negotiate royalty rates that might otherwise be impossible Read more

28 June, 2004 by John Borland

Royalty dispute confuses CD copy-protection

CDs carrying two copies of each song in a bid to control music downloading are falling foul of music publishers Read more

13 January, 2004 by John Borland

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