Terms of the deal call for Samsung to pay a license fee to Universal Display, and to buy a minimum amount of phosphorescent OLED material use in OLED products.
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According to TechCrunch, the agreement means Samsung will pay Microsoft royalties for all phones and tablets running the Android mobile operating system, while both companies will participate in the marketing and development of Windows Phone 7.
The amount that Samsung is ordered to pay could change, however.
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It has already convinced Samsung, HTC and others to pay it patent royalty fees.
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Other firms to have agreed to pay royalties include HTC, Samsung, LG, Sharp and Acer.
Like Apple, Samsung's scale enables it to pay lower prices for components than competitors.
Chinese consumers have been snapping up Lenovo smartphones, but at far lower prices than what they seem willing to pay for an iPhone or a Samsung device.
So Samsung cannot stop Apple from using the patent: they can only demand that they pay for that use.
In the end, the ITC may pay attention to U.S. Appeals Court ruling in favor of Samsung which stated that an injunction is proper only if the patented invention drives sales and is not proper if the patent represents a single feature of a multi featured device.
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Contract subsidies and upgrade offers will affect the prices that U.S. consumers actually pay, but apples to apples, so to speak, it would seem that Samsung will be pricing the S4 aggressively.
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