Motorola, Apple to pay billions of dollars in royalties

According to the Wall Street Journal reports, Motorola Mobile has asked Apple to pay royalties of 2.25% on last year's sales of the iPhone and iPad. This royalty may be worth billions of dollars.

Motorola, a lawyer in the California court last month disclosed a letter, Motorola has asked to pay royalties for patent licenses.

This document is written on October 17 last year to complete. Which disclosed a patent struggle between the various mobile device manufacturers are becoming hotter. Which Apple has launched a major peer competitor melee combat, including Samsung, HTC and many other smart phone manufacturers have joined the melee of this mobile device patent.

Although each company stressed that the patent has been serious violations, but this document clearly explained the value of these patents have been violated. If each sold for the Apple iPhone levy of 2.25% patent license fee, then only the 2011 license fee is likely to exceed 10 billion U.S. dollars. However, this court papers submitted did not specify for which several products levied not indicate whether it will be carried out retrospectively.

Apple and Motorola refused to make the evaluation of this message.