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[January 2006]
Nokia and Kyocera Resolve Patent Disputes
Kyocera Corporation (Kyoto, Japan), along with its subsidiary Kyocera Wireless Corp, and Nokia Corporation (Helsinki, Finland), along with its subsidiary Nokia Inc, announced on 10 January 2006 that they had entered into a patent licence agreement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Kyocera is licensed under Nokia's essential patents - and some additional patents - relating to CDMA, PHS and PDC standards. Kyocera will pay royalties to Nokia for all Kyocera CDMA mobile phone and module products.
Reciprocally, Nokia is licensed under all of Kyocera's essential patents - and some additional patents - relating to all standards and covering all Nokia mobile phone, modules and infrastructure products.
The parties have since February 2004 been involved in a series of patent disputes relating to mobile phone products. This licence agreement resolves all pending litigation between the parties without contingencies of any kind.
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