Last year, Microsoft sued Samsung after Samsung allegedly failed to pay some fees to Microsoft for a cross-licensing agreement related to patents used in Android devices. Samsung contended that the contract was no longer viable after Microsoft acquired Nokia's mobile division.
“Samsung and Microsoft are pleased to announce that they have ended their contract dispute in U.S. court as well as the ICC arbitration. Terms of the agreement are confidential," a statement attributed to bothSamsung and Microsoft reads.
In 2011, the companies made a patent agreement in which Samsung agreed to pay Microsoft royalties for each Android phone it sold. According to the lawsuit, Samsung still owed $6.9 million in interest.
Microsoft holds patent-licensing agreementswith other Android OEMs, such as HTC. Though Android is Google's operating system, the Redmond, Washington-based company asserts that some of the underlying technology uses Microsoft patents. It's never been specified how much Samsung was supposed to pay for each device sold, but the royalty payments totaled at $1 billion in 2013.
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