Nokia agrees to UK-set FRAND rate in global Warner-Paramount feud
The news comes as Paramount trumps Netflix’s bid for Warner, which is apparently unrelated to the sprawling, multi-jurisdictional patent fights between Nokia and the Hollywood studios over video coding technology.
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