Under the terms of the multi-million dollar expansion, Nokia has also been granted a royalty-bearing license under QUALCOMM's patents to make and sell infrastructure equipment for all CDMA wireless systems while QUALCOMM is granted rights under Nokia's CDMA-related and other patents to market and sell CDMA components, including multi-mode integrated circuits.
The terms of the multi-million dollar expansion grants the Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) a royalty-bearing license under QUALCOMM's patents to make and sell infrastructure and subscriber equipment for CDMA wireless systems. The expansion also grants QUALCOMM royalty-free rights under Siemens' patents to market and sell CDMA components, including multimode chipsets. Under the new agreement, the Subscriber Unit royalty rate will be the same, irrespective of the standard implemented.