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BRUSSELS: Daimler<\/a> has agreed to pay Nokia<\/a> for using its patents<\/a>, ending a row that highlighted a battle between tech and car companies over royalties for key technologies.
Nokia, which makes 1.4 billion euros ($1.7 billion) in licensing revenues every year, and carmaker Daimler had sued each other in German courts in recent years, with mixed results.
Tech firms want automakers to pay royalties for technologies used in navigation systems, vehicle communications and self-driving cars, but the latter say their suppliers should pay instead, which could reduce the fees for patent holders.
The agreement announced jointly on Tuesday marks the latest win for Nokia which in April struck a deal with China's Lenovo<\/a> under which the world's biggest PC maker would make a net balancing payment to the Finnish telecoms equipment maker and resolve all pending litigation.
That followed a deal with Samsung<\/a> the previous month in which the South Korean company agreed to make royalty payments for its technologies related to video standards.
Nokia and Daimler did not disclose the terms of their patent licensing deal, but said they would halt litigation. The German carmaker has to date never paid Nokia for using its patents.
\"We welcome the settlement, from an economic point of view and because we avoid lengthy ... disputes,\" a Daimler spokeswoman said.
The deal is good news for Nokia, said Danske Bank analyst Mads Rosendal.
\"The revenue stream is not likely to be material but at the very least it will be very stable and high margin. Also, ending of the dispute should save a fair amount of legal costs going forward. Slightly credit positive for Nokia, in our view,\" he said.
The end of the dispute means a German court's request last year to the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice, Europe's highest, for guidance on the issue will be moot.
However, German car parts maker Continental, which together with Daimler, Bury Technologies, Valeo and Thales-owned Gemalto complained about Nokia's patent fees to EU antitrust regulators in 2019, said it was not dropping its complaint nor legal fight in the United States.
It urged the European Commission to set out a binding patent licensing framework.
\"It must ... define this framework otherwise European companies will face an insurmountable competitive disadvantage in the future market of the Internet of Things compared to Asian and American market participants,\" Continental board member and head of its vehicle networking and information business unit Helmut Matschi said in a statement.
Audi, Bentley, BMW<\/a>, Mini, Porsche, Rolls Royce, Seat, Skoda<\/a>, Volkswagen<\/a> and Volvo<\/a> already pay patent fees to Nokia.
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戴姆勒诺基亚专利费用,结束德国法律争端
诺基亚,这使得14亿欧元(合17亿美元)的许可收入每年,和汽车制造商戴姆勒公司近年来在德国法院起诉对方,结果喜忧参半。
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布鲁塞尔:戴姆勒已同意支付诺基亚使用它专利,结束连续强调科技和汽车公司之间的一场关键技术使用费。
诺基亚,这使得14亿欧元(合17亿美元)的许可收入每年,和汽车制造商戴姆勒公司近年来在德国法院起诉对方,结果喜忧参半。
科技公司希望汽车制造商支付版税技术用于导航系统、汽车通讯和自动驾驶汽车,但后者说他们的供应商应相反,这可能减少专利持有者的费用。
周二宣布的协议的共同标志着诺基亚的最新赢得4月与中国达成协议联想在世界上最大的个人电脑制造商将净平衡付款芬兰电信设备制造商和解决所有未决诉讼。
,然后进行了处理三星上个月,这家韩国公司同意支付版税的技术相关的视频标准。
诺基亚和戴姆勒没有透露他们的专利许可协议的条款,但表示他们将停止诉讼。德国汽车制造商迄今为止从未支付使用其专利的诺基亚。
“我们欢迎和解,从经济的角度来看,因为我们避免冗长……争端,”戴姆勒发言人说。
这笔交易对诺基亚来说是个好消息,丹乐动扑克麦银行分析师马德斯Rosendal说。
“收入是不可能材料但至少它将非常稳定和高利润率。同样,结束争端应该保存大量的法律费用。略信贷阳性诺基亚,在我们看来,”他说。
争议的结束意味着德国法院的请求去年卢森堡法院,欧洲最高的指导的问题会被讨论。
然而,德国汽车零部件制造商大陆,与戴姆勒一起埋技术,法雷奥和Thales-owned金雅拓抱怨诺基亚的专利费用在2019年欧盟反垄断监管机构,称不放弃其投诉和法律对抗美国。
它敦促欧盟委员会提出了一个绑定专利授权框架。
“它必须…定义这个框架否则欧洲企业将面临一个不可逾越的竞争劣势在未来物联网市场相比,亚洲和美国市场参与者,“大陆董事会成员和其车辆网络和信息业务单元负责人赫尔穆特•Matschi在一份声明中说。
奥迪、宾利、宝马、迷你、保时捷、劳斯莱斯、座位斯柯达,大众汽车和沃尔沃诺基亚已经支付专利费用。
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