Ericsson Sues Samsung over mobile phone technology

Ericsson Sues Samsung over mobile phone technology

Mobile network equipment giant Ericsson has confirmed that it has filed a lawsuit against South Korea based tech giant Samsung. This lawsuit is over patent infringement on part of Samsung on mobile technologies.

Ericsson representative Ase Lindskog confirmed in a statement: “We have filed a lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement in the U.S., UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. The reason is that we have had extensive negotiations with Samsung over a renewal of licenses because their agreement with us expired on December 31 last year.”

She further added: “They are using mobile phone patents which no longer have licenses”. Samsung has declined to comment on this lawsuit for the time being. Ericsson is also one of the few companies to have complained to the European Union about Qualcomm claiming that their actions were causing stifling competition in the mobile phone chip market.

Ericsson’s lawsuit against Samsung is related to GSM, GPRS, and EDGE technologies.