The court ruled that BlackBerry paid Nokia 137 million royalties

Sina Technology News Beijing December 1 evening news, the International Court of Arbitration today ruled that BlackBerry need to pay 137 million US dollars Nokia's royalties.

Blackberry said that affected, the company will be included in the future quarterly earnings of this fee, but did not say when included.

At the same time, Blackberry stressed that the dispute stems from the issue of payment of a patent license agreement between the two parties and has nothing to do with suing Nokia for infringement of patent rights before.

In February, BlackBerry sued Nokia accused Nokia of infringing its 11 patented technologies and asked Nokia to pay royalties, while BlackBerry said the allegedly infringing Nokia products include Flexi Multiradio base stations, broadcast network controllers and Liquid Radio software, Up to 11 patents.

At present, the patent license has become an important revenue source for BlackBerry, but also the company CEO Cheng Shou-tsung to reverse the decline of life-saving straw.Because of the sluggish smartphone business, Nokia's revenue has been a continuous decline for 6 years.

Now that BlackBerry no longer makes hardware, it has just turned to software, and BlackBerry has given it all to its licensees to make and sell hardware.

The second quarter of this year, BlackBerry revenue of 249 million US dollars, down from 352 million US dollars the same period last year, but slightly higher than the 244 million US dollars in the first quarter, of which software and services revenue hit 196 million US dollars new highs.

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