Docomo grants patent license to Samsung

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NTT Docomo has reached an agreement to grant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd a patent license covering Docomo’s standard-essential patents. The agreement includes both parties’ cooperation in business and standard setting activities. As part of the agreement, Samsung is to pay licensing fees to Docomo.

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Docomo has now granted standard-essential patent licenses to more than 30 companies.

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Docomo receives licensing fees for its standard-essential patents, which are paid via patent pools or directly by individual companies.

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Docomo plans to continue its patent licensing as a world leader in the research and development of mobile-network and service technologies for systems based on the W-CDMA, LTE, LTE-Advanced and to-be-standardized 5G standards.

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