BlackBerry has agreed to sell most of its legacy smartphone patents for an upfront payment of US$170-million in a deal the company said could be worth as much as US$900-million.
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Nokia has signed a new cross-license patent agreement with Samsung following the expiry of the previous agreement at the end of 2022.
Apple smartwatches could face an import ban after a U.S. judge ruled that the company infringed on one of Masimo's pulse oximeter patents.
Ericsson and Apple have reached a multi-year, global patent license agreement between the two companies. The agreement includes a cross-license relating to patented cellular standard-essential technologies and grants certain other patent rights.
Source Digital has been awarded a European patent that not only covers functionality for activating visual content in video, but at any coordinate in any metaverse
Back in January of this year, BlackBerry entered into a patent sale agreement with Catapult IP Innovations Inc., a Delaware company, pursuant to which BlackBerry agreed to sell substantially all of its non-core patent assets to Catapult for total consideration of $600 million.
Metaverse yacht company Cyber Yachts has been awarded patent-pending status by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patents relate to revolutionary technology developed for Cyber Yachts' NFT and metaverse projects.
Fender has tendered a series of applications to enable the guitar giant to use their headstock shape in potential NFT products and virtual goods.
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BlackBerry has entered into a patent sale agreement with Catapult IP Innovations Inc., a Delaware company, pursuant to which BlackBerry has agreed to sell substantially all of its non-core patent assets to Catapult for total consideration of $600 million.
ByteDance has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, becoming a licensee and community member of OIN.
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Ericsson and Samsung have reached a multi-year agreement on global patent licenses between the two companies, including patents relating to all cellular technologies. The cross-license agreement covers sales of network infrastructure and handsets from January 1, 2021.
Nokia has been ranked as number one in 5G patents by an independent third party. In its study on Standard Essential Patents (published April 2021), independent analyst firm PA Consulting concluded that Nokia is number one for ownership of granted patents that the researchers found essential to 5G standards.
