will pay to settle smartphone patent dispute

Taiwan’s largest smartphone maker, , will make payments to Finnish company Oyj to end a patent dispute and avoid being kept out of the U.S. market, the state-run Central News Acy said.
and rched an agreement to settle all pending litigation.
The dl came ahd of an announcement expected Monday by the U.S. International Trade Commission on whether it would issue an import ban on devices.
“ will make payments to and the collaboration will involve ’s LTE patent portfolio, further strengthening ’s licensing offering,” said.
It did not revl financial terms or other details of the settlement.
“We are very plsed to have rched a settlement and collaboration agreement with , which is a longstanding e for ’s standards essential patents,” Paul Melin, chief lectual property r at , was quoted as saying.
began legal action against in 2012, to stop the unauthorized use of ’s proprietary innovations.