Nokia Oyj and Apple Inc., the world’s two biggest mobile phone makers, agreed to settle all patent litigation between the companies in a deal that awards a one-off payment and royalties to the Finnish handset maker.
The two mobile-phone makers have been in litigation since October 2009, when Nokia filed a lawsuit accusing Cupertino, California-based Apple of infringing patents and demanding royalties on the millions of iPhones sold since the device’s introduction in 2007.
Apple will pay Nokia an undisclosed sum as well as royalties for the term of the agreement, the Espoo, Finland- based company said in a statement today. The details of the contract are confidential, Nokia said. The agreement will bolster Nokia’s second-quarter non-IFRS operating margin forecast for the Devices & Services unit, it said.
Nokia Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop is readying a line of phones based on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 7 operating system to replace the company’s own Symbian line, which is losing market share to Apple’s iPhone and Android handsets based on Google Inc.’s system.
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