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Nokia and Apple sign patent license and business collaboration agreement, settle all litigation

Nokia Corporation
Stock Exchange Release
May 23, 2017 at 09:50 (CET +1)


Nokia and Apple sign patent license and business collaboration agreement, settle
all litigation

Cupertino, California and Espoo, Finland - Nokia and Apple announced today that
they have settled all litigation related to their intellectual property dispute
and agreed a multi-year patent license.

"This is a meaningful agreement between Nokia and Apple," said Maria Varsellona,
Chief Legal Officer at Nokia, responsible for Nokia's patent licensing business.
"It moves our relationship with Apple from being adversaries in court to
business partners working for the benefit of our customers."

Under a business collaboration agreement, Nokia will be providing certain
network infrastructure products and services to Apple. Apple will resume
carrying Nokia digital health products (formerly under the Withings brand) in
Apple retail and online stores, and Apple and Nokia are exploring future
collaboration in digital health initiatives. Regular summits between top Nokia
and Apple executives will ensure that the relationship works effectively and to
the benefit of both parties and their customers.

"We are pleased with this resolution of our dispute and we look forward to
expanding our business relationship with Nokia," said Jeff Williams, Apple's
chief operating officer.

"This agreement will strengthen our collaboration," said Basil Alwan, President
of Nokia's IP/Optical Networks business. "We look forward to supporting Apple.

While details of the agreement remain confidential, Nokia will receive an up-
front cash payment from Apple, with additional revenues during the term of the
agreement.

The value of the agreement will be reflected partially as patent licensing net
sales in Nokia Technologies and partially as net sales in other Nokia business
groups. Nokia will follow its existing practices for disclosing patent licensing
revenue in its quarterly announcements and expects that revenues for the
agreement will start to be recognized in the second quarter of 2017, including
an element of non-recurring catch-up revenue.

Due to the up-front cash payment from Apple, Nokia intends to provide a
comprehensive update of its capital structure optimization program in
conjunction with its third quarter 2017 results.



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