Kyocera Corporation, along with
its subsidiary, Kyocera Wireless Corp., and Nokia Corporation, along
with its subsidiary Nokia Inc., today announced that they have
entered into a patent license agreement. Under the terms of the
agreement, Kyocera is licensed under Nokia’s essential patents, and
some additional patents, relating to CDMA, PHS and PDC standards.
Kyocera will pay royalties to Nokia for all Kyocera CDMA mobile phone
and module products. Reciprocally, Nokia is licensed under all of
Kyocera’s essential patents, and some additional patents, relating to
all standards and covering all Nokia mobile phone, module and
infrastructure products.