ZTE has settled all outstanding litigation worldwide with Ericsson, ending their nine months patent lawsuits peacefully, ZTE corporation told our reporter recently.

After extensive discussion and consultation, the companies have agreed to withdraw all patent litigation against each other, according to ZTE's statement, including the lawsuits filed by Ericsson against ZTE in the UK, Germany and Italy, and the cases filed by ZTE against Ericsson in China. Now the legal counsels of the two companies have submitted applications to the courts concerned for withdrawal of the lawsuits, pending withdrawal rulings to be made by the respective courts.

ZTE and Ericsson have announced that the two companies have settled their patent disputes and have entered into a cross-licensing agreement. "Ericsson has the strongest patent portfolio in the industry," said Kasim Alfalahi, Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Ericsson.,"We have signed more than 90 patent agreements with different vendors worldwide. Now we can add ZTE to this group." The fair and reasonable agreement will help ZTE gain larger development space in global market, said the principal.

While the score is settled with Ericsson, ZTE is still entangled in another patent dispute with rival Huawei.

 (China IP News)