Posted on Wednesday, July 06 2011 @ 23:13 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Reuters
reports Microsoft has demanded that Samsung pays $15 in patent licenses for each Google Android based smartphone it manufactures.
Samsung would likely seek to lower the payment to about $10 in exchange for a deeper alliance with Microsoft for the U.S. company's Windows platform, the Maeil Business Newspaper quoted unnamed industry officials as saying.
Samsung had no immediate comment.
In April last year, Microsoft said it had reached a licensing deal with Taiwan's HTC Corp, under which it would receive royalty payments on its handsets running Android.
