Nokia announced today that it had settled a worldwide patent dispute with Amazon over the tech giant's alleged misuse of Nokia's streaming video technology in Prime Video and Twitch streaming services.
Nokia said that the companies had resolved all patent litigation between them, including an Amazon countersuit in the US alleging that Nokia infringed its cloud computing patents, under confidential terms.
Amazon said in a statement that the companies had signed a "multi-year patent agreement."
Nokia sued Amazon in 2023 in the US, Germany, India, the UK and at the European Unified Patent Court. Nokia said in its US lawsuit that Amazon refused to take licenses to the patents and instead misused Nokia's technology to enable more efficient high-quality video streaming.
Amazon sued Nokia in Delaware federal court last year, accusing the Finnish telecom company of using Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology related to cloud computing infrastructure, security and performance without a license.
A German court determined last year that Amazon had misused Nokia's technology without a license. Amazon said in February that it did not expect German Prime Video users to be affected by the ruling.
