Samsung, Sony Sign Sweeping Patent Deal
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Some key technologies will not be included in the deal. Sony and Samsung will not share patented technology related to Sony&#39;s Digital Reality Creation (DRC) and PlayStation architecture or to
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Toshiba Corp. (6502.T) said on Friday it  would buy certain chip-related patents from Micron Technology  Inc.  and secure licences for all the patents held by  Micron unit Lexar Media Inc. for $288 million, ending lawsuits  between the Japanese electronics maker and Lexar.
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Samsung Electronics sealed a comprehensive cross license contract with Sony of Japan to share most of their patent technologies. Samsung Electronics and Sony announced on December 14 in Seoul
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Toshiba Corp. 6502.T said on Friday it   would buy certain chip-related patents from Micron Technology   Inc. MU.N and secure licences for all the patents held by   Micron unit Lexar Media Inc. for $288 million, ending lawsuits   between the Japanese electronics maker and Lexar.
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.  Ltd.  and Sweden's Ericsson  on Monday  signed a mobile telecommunication cross license deal and agreed  to drop ongoing patent suits between the two companies.
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Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics have announced that the companies have agreed to share patents on basic technologies to speed up product development and avoid adding to a growing number of cross-border patent disputes.
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Samsung and Koninklijke Philips Tuesday said they are teaming up to incorporate Near-Field Communication technology in future cell-phone models from Samsung, giving users the ability to use their phones to make payments.
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Sony announced that, in partnership with IBM and Toshiba, it is working on developing a Cell chip, which is designed to deliver high-definition content in an efficient manner.
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Ampex and Sony have settled a patent dispute over digital-camera technology, Ampex said Monday. As part of the deal, Redwood City, Calif.
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By Mark Johnson Associated Press  ALBANY, N.Y. -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chip maker, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit charging the company and others with price-fixing, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.
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Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that it has concluded a cross-licensing agreement on patents with Sweden's LM Ericsson in wireless communications technology.
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Korea-based Samsung is preparing to develop mobile devices that use Philips (NYSE: PHG) NFC chips, as the two electronics giants join forces to push a nascent touch-based wireless technology called "near field communication" (NFC).
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(InfoWorld) - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Samsung ElectronicsÂ have reached a cross-license agreement for their mobile telephony patents, ending recentÂ lawsuits between the two companies, Ericsson said Monday. The worldwide agreement covers 2G (second-generation) and 3G (third-generation) mobile telephony standards, Ericsson said in a news release. The agreement allows the two companies to develop, manufacture and sell 2G and 3G subscriber and infrastructure equipment, Ericsson said. The firms will pay royalties to each other. In August 2006,Â Ericsson filed a fresh lawsuit against SamsungÂ in a court in Texas, charging Samsung with infringing Ericsson mobile phone patents. That action followed lawsuits filed in February 2006 in Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the U.S. after the two companies failed to agree on terms for a renewal of patent licenses. Ericsson originally signed a licensing deal with Samsung in 2002 for patents related to several mobile phone technologies. That agreement expired in 2005, and it allowed Samsung to use patents from Ericsson for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) technologies, according to Ericsson. Â
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Korea and Singapore sealed a free-trade agreement yesterday that covers nine broad areas, including electronics, finance and intellectual property rights.
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd   said on Friday it had agreed with Hitachi Ltd's  data  storage business unit to a license deal over hard disk drive  (HDD) patents.
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Japan's Sony and South Korea's Samsung agree a deal to share patents on new technology.
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Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that it has agreed to a cross-licensing agreement on patents with Sweden's LM Ericsson in wireless communications technology.