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Earlier this year, Samsung and Google entered into a cross-licensing patent agreement for 10 years. LG has now followed suit and signed a similar long-term patent deal with Google.
The 10-year long agreement covers a broad range of products and technologies and includes the existing as well as any patent filed by both companies in the future.
“We’re pleased to enter into this agreement with a leading global technology company like LG,” said Allen Lo, deputy general counsel for patents at Google. “By working together on cross-licenses like this, companies can focus on bringing great products and services to consumers around the world.”
Google has been working hard on reducing and ending patent based litigations once and for all. The company even acquired Motorola and then sold it off a couple of years later but kept all of its important patents to protect the Android ecosystem and OEMs from any litigation from Apple or any other company.
In the recent years, LG’s relationship with Google has intensified with the companies working together consecutively for two years on two Nexus handsets in 2012 and 2013.
[Via LG]
