ZTE has a patentovereenkomst closed with Microsoft making the particular technology-lwa n of the company license are allowed to use. The patents relate to Google’s Android and Chrome OS. Earlier locks Samsung, HTC and LG such agreement with Microsoft.
ZTE joins with the deal with a large group of manufacturers who charge a fee to Microsoft to pay for each Android or Chrome OS-product that they produce. Samsung, HTC, Acer and LG signed earlier a similar agreement. Recently it became known that the Chinese Hon Hai, the parent company of odm Foxconn, a license agreement with Microsoft is closed for the same patents.
Microsoft says in the blog post that the deal will disclose that the current legal battle over technical patents largely can be avoided if companies are willing to use technologies to license to competitors, and itself to pay for the use of technologies that other companies have thought up. The American company says itself, the past ten years more than $ 10 billion paid to other companies for their technologies to be able to use.
The company from Redmond says that the licentiegelden receives approximately 80 percent of the Android phones in America to be sold. Worldwide, it would in any case to more than half of the sold Android phones. Probably earns Microsoft more money on Android than its own mobile operating system Windows Phone.
The blog post ends with a call to global companies that have no license agreement with Microsoft have concluded, at this time. The company is referring here, presumably, on Google, and Motorola. Google is the manufacturer behind Android and Chrome OS, and took phone manufacturer Motorola in 2011, partly due to Motorola’s vast patentportfolio.