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RIM and Motorola settle cross-licensing dispute

...RIM and Motorola have reached an agreement over cross-licensing, after being caught up in a patent lawsuit battle for several... Read more

14 June, 2010 by Sam Diaz

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

...specialist and a halt of legal proceedings between the two companies. The cross-licensing agreement, announced on Monday night, gives Intel access to Nvidia's... Read more

11 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

Samsung signs Android licensing deal with Microsoft

...Samsung has signed a cross-licensing deal with Microsoft that will see the Windows maker get royalties... Read more

28 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

IBM and Samsung announce patent deal

...Samsung have agreed to license their patent portfolios to each other. The cross-licensing deal will give each company access to the other's portfolio... Read more

8 February, 2011

Sony takes over Sony Ericsson in 1bn euro deal

...919m) cash deal, expected to close in January, lays out a broad cross-licensing agreement between Sony and Ericsson. It also gives Sony ownership of... Read more

27 October, 2011 by David Meyer

2012: Another year, like any other?

Mayan calendar bugs notwithstanding, 2012 looks to be another significant year for the tech world – with cloud... Read more

6 January, 2012

Seagate closes Samsung HDD business buy

...and solid-state hybrid drives. The two firms also have various patent cross-licensing agreements. According to the statement on Monday, "Seagate will retain certain... Read more

20 December, 2011

The first micros: Intel 4004's forgotten peers

The 4004 chip is 40 today, so it's about time it had a mid-life identity crisis. Its creation story is well known —... Read more

15 November, 2011

Talking tablets, and more, with Lenovo

There is much talk of a 'post-PC' world in which smartphones, tablets and other digital devices take centre stage. Be... Read more

19 October, 2011

Rumour: Amazon might buy WebOS. But why?

The spectacular failure of Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad media tablet has left the WebOS operating system, originally... Read more

30 September, 2011

Why the Google-Motorola deal is good/bad news

...have been expected to arrive at the usual sort of settlement: a cross-licensing agreement with a small cash transfer to whoever has the most... Read more

15 August, 2011

Sony and LG end patent war, sign licensing deal

...suing each other over alleged patent infringements and have reportedly signed a cross-licensing deal instead. In a statement sent to ZDNet UK on Thursday... Read more

11 August, 2011

Judge sides with Kodak in Apple patent case

...years. In December 2009, Kodak announced that it had reached royalty-bearing cross-licensing agreements with Samsung and LG over similar patent-infringement claims filed... Read more

13 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

Nvidia earnings lift off with Tegra growth

...because the company received $57m from Intel as part of a new cross-licensing deal. When this figure is discounted, the previous quarter's profit... Read more

13 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel profit jumps 48 percent

...a $1.25bn litigation settlement paid to AMD as part of a cross-licensing deal. Enterprise market Intel's chief financial officer Stacy Smith noted... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

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