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Apple says Samsung patent royalty demands unfair Jul 25th 2012, 17:17 Tweet Share this Email Print An Apple retail store is seen in Carlsbad, California April 6, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake By Dan Levine and Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:17pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc said Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is demanding from the iPhone maker a far higher patent royalty than it pays to other licensers, at a rate the South Korean company has never sought from any other licensee. Samsung is demanding a 2.4 percent rate on the "entire selling price" of Apple's mobile products, the Palo Alto, California-based company said in a U.S. court filing on Wednesday. The information was contained in freshly unsealed portions of a legal brief in a high profile patent lawsuit between the two companies. "Samsung's royalty demands are multiple times more than Apple has paid any other patentees for licenses to their declared-essential patent portfolios," Apple said in the documents. However, Samsung said in a separate filing on Wednesday that its offer "is consistent with the royalty rates other companies charge" and that Apple never made a counter offer. "Instead, it simply rejected Samsung's opening offer, refused to negotiate further and to this day has not paid Samsung a dime for Apple‘s use of Samsung's standards-essential technology," Samsung said. The legal filings do not disclose the rate Apple pays to other companies for standard essential patents. These are patents which Samsung has agreed to license to competitors on fair and reasonable terms, in exchange for having the technology be adopted as an industry standard. In a court filing on Tuesday, Apple had said it should pay one-half of 1 cent per unit for each infringed standard essential patent. Apple and Samsung, the world's largest consumer electronics corporations, are waging legal war around the world, accusing each other of patent violations as they vie for supremacy in a fast-growing market for mobile devices. One of the key issues in dispute between the companies is how to value Samsung's standard essential patents, which some judges are reluctant to issue injunctions over. A trial in San Jose, California, federal court is scheduled to start July 30. The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, 11-1846. (Additional reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Richard Chang) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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