"Smartflash makes no products, has no employees, creates no jobs, has no U.S. presence, and is exploiting our patent system to seek royalties for technology Apple invented," Apple said in a statement.
It bought a stake in Lucky Film, China's main film manufacturer, which could increase distribution in Asia as well as bring royalties for manufacturing technologies.
Micron Technology and Infineon Technologies decided they were going to fight it and not pay Rambus royalties for their technology.
Hypothetically, if the laptop was stolen by spies that use the information "valuable to foreign governments" to develop a technology that competes with CDMA, they'll still have to pay royalties for any technology that incorporates CDMA.
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Qualcomm charges patent royalties for its technology to mobile phone manufacturers.
Dr. Toth receives royalties for surgical technology licensed to Alcon Laboratories.
Samsung settled on paying royalties to Kodak for technologies used in its mobile phones and the firms agreed to terminate lawsuits against each other in federal court in Rochester, along with patent-infringement proceedings before the trade commission.
Rambus filed suit in September against Infineon Technologies, a German chip maker, charging patent infringement and seeking royalties for using its technology; Infineon countersued.
In January, Apple sued Qualcomm for just about $1 billion, for charging a hefty price for royalties on technologies that Apple said the chipmaker should not be associated with.
