Mobile-phone startup Sendo said it will drop its patent lawsuit against European carrier Orange due to a new licensing deal with Texas Instruments Inc., but that it will continue its fight against Microsoft Corp.
Sendo said it withdrew the lawsuit and that it will contribute to Orange’s legal costs. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
TI said it entered a patent licensing agreement with Sendo related to Sendo’s smart-phone technology. TI further said that, as a result of the license agreement, it will not change its prices for OMAP devices.
Sendo filed suit against Orange earlier this year, seeking damages and an injunction against future sales of the Orange SPV smart phone. Sendo said its patent relates to the design of the circuit board within the phone.
Sendo last year filed a lawsuit against Microsoft over a planned smart phone. Sendo, which in 2000 announced plans to build a mobile phone using Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system, alleges Microsoft stole Sendo’s technology and sought to drive the company out of business. Orange last year began selling the world’s first Microsoft smart phone, built by High Tech Corp. The carrier has so far sold about 70,000 of the high-end devices.
