NTT DOCOMO has granted a patent license to Samsung Electronics Co. covering DOCOMO’s standard-essential patents. Samsung will pay an undisclosed licensing fee to DOCOMO.
DOCOMO confirmed that it has now granted standard-essential patent licenses to more than 30 companies. The company said its R&D and patent licensing covers mobile-network and service technologies for systems based on the W-CDMA, LTE, LTE-Advanced and to-be-standardized 5G standards.
