Apple would dozens of patents have bought several lte technology lwa n describe. To strengthen its portfolio in the field of lte technology would be Apple’s position in the patentoorlog with Samsung want to improve.
The Korean newspaper The Chonsunilbo reports that Apple last year, still no lte-related patent owned, while the company, according to the patentregister of the European Telecommunications and Standardization Institute in the meantime 318 patents in the area of the 4g-technology in the hands would have. That equates to 4.9 percent of the total number of lte patents. Apple would be in the top 10 of companies with lte patents in its portfolio. The number one is Samsung with 819 lte patents to his name.
Of the 318 lte patents would be Apple itself, there are only 44 themselves have developed. The other patents, the company retired to obtain by buying the company’s Nortel and Freescale. Because Apple also have a majority stake in Rockstar Bidco and 116 lte patents, brings the total of 434.
According to some analysts, Apple has purposefully first lte patents were bought before the a 4g device on the market would bring. So it would be stronger in the patentenoorlog that it performs against Samsung. It is possible the iPhone 5, probably on 12 september, it is announced, be equipped with lte.