Failing to sell as many Android smartphones as Samsung, Windows takes advantage of every sale of the South Korean. Thanks to an agreement signed in September 2011, the Redmond company has indeed received more than $ 1 billion (800 million euros) for the use of its patents on several devices marketed, reported Oct. 4 blog Foss Patents.
For the fiscal year 2012-2013, the American company has seen in all and for all 1,041,642,161.25 dollars, and this does not include the nearly $ 7 million interest (precisely 6,991,844.64) but claimed that Samsung did not pay. The sum was revealed by Microsoft, on trial since August with Samsung, which calls into Because the agreement and royalty payments (hence the interest), resulting in a complaint from the American.
An agreement that runs until 2018
In the words this agreement, the number one in sales of smartphones is indeed supposed to pay royalties each year, and until June 2018 What he did not intend to do, saying that the acquisition of Nokia by Microsoft changed the situation and is expected to reduce benefits or even their outright abolition
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The two parties have yet agreed to the deal also applies to “subsidiary or acquired after the entry into force of the Agreement division” says Microsoft, which believes that it is precisely the case with Nokia.
A dozen agreements
If the deal with Samsung is the one who brought the most to the company headed by Satya Nadella, it does is not alone. In 2010, Microsoft has signed agreements with several vendors of Android smartphones, like HTC, Foxconn and ZTE, said the website specialized in new technologies ZDnet. The Redmond company has earned about $ 3.4 billion in fiscal year 2012-2013 for the use of its patents on Android, or 15.5% of its annual profit to 21.86 billion dollars .
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