By Mary Jo Foley | October 23, 2011, 7:57am PDT
With a newly minted agreement with Compal Electronics, Microsoft officials say that they now have more than half of the worldwide ODMs for Android and Chrome OS devices now paying them patent royalties.
Original design manufacturer (ODM) Compal Electronics has licensed publicly undisclosed Microsoft patents and is paying Microsoft undisclosed royalties to cover phones, tablets and e-readers it makes that run Android and the Chrome OS. Microsoft and Compal announced they had signed a patent agreement Microsoft officials said that with the addition of Compal to its patent-protection roster , Microsoft now has “more than half of the world’s ODM industry for Andr...
