The world's largest software company, Microsoft
Corporation(NASDAQ:MSFT) is willing to pay Motorola Mobility $1.2 million for
patents related to FRAND.
Both the companies have filed trial briefs with regard
to what they believe as fair and reasonable values for their FRAND
negotiations.
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According to Motorola, the software firm should pay it
2.25 percent share per device, what it sees as a logical starting point for all
future negotiations between the two companies.
However Microsoft feels that "the FRAND rate in
1012 for Motorola’s H.264 standards-essential patents is $474,000 and the
02.11-related patents for 2012 should be set to $736,231. Throw those numbers
together and Motorola by Microsoft’s math is owed $1.2 million," Inquisitr
said in a report.
Microsoft's contention is that Google, which owns
Motorola Mobility, had agreed to license the patents under FRAND accepted
prices based on the MPEG LA AVC patent pool.
Microsoft says it wants a court enforceable decision
so it can end litigation with Motorola Mobility and Google.
Google and Motorola Mobility are already under
investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission for violations in regards to
standards-essential patent licensing.
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