{"id":1006419,"date":"2026-05-02T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006419"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:24:13","slug":"uk-court-orders-samsung-to-pay-chinas-zte-a-392-million-lump-sum-after-patent-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/02\/uk-court-orders-samsung-to-pay-chinas-zte-a-392-million-lump-sum-after-patent-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"UK court orders Samsung to pay China&#8217;s ZTE a $392 million lump sum after patent trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Samsung Electronics must pay a $392 million lump sum for a licence to use ZTE&#8217;s patents for mobile phones, London&#8217;s High Court ruled on Friday in the English leg of the companies&#8217; global licensing dispute. <\/p>\n<p>ZTE has brought parallel \u200clawsuits \u2060against Samsung \u2060in China, Germany and Brazil as the two companies battle over the terms on which Samsung can use ZTE&#8217;s patents, and most importantly the cost. <\/p>\n<p>The patents are needed to ensure smartphones can access networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Samsung Electronics must pay a $392 million lump sum for a licence to use ZTE&#8217;s patents for mobile phones, London&#8217;s High Court ruled on Friday in the English leg of the companies&#8217; global licensing dispute. ZTE has brought parallel \u200clawsuits \u2060against Samsung \u2060in China, Germany and Brazil as the two companies battle over the terms on which Samsung can use ZTE&#8217;s patents, and most importantly the cost. The patents are needed to ensure smartphones can access networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006430,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006419\/revisions\/1006430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}