August 25, 2020
A California federal judge on Tuesday handed Microsoft a partial victory in its royalties dispute with Hon Hai over patents covering smartphones, finding that the evidence indicates the Taiwanese manufacturer indeed breached the pair's contract by withholding accurate royalties reports.
July 14, 2020
Microsoft and Hon Hai have reached a settlement in principle to resolve a royalty dispute over patents covering smartphones, the Taiwanese manufacturer told a California federal court Tuesday, three months after Microsoft sought terminating sanctions.
April 22, 2020
Microsoft urged a California magistrate judge Wednesday to recommend terminating sanctions against Hon Hai that would end their royalty dispute involving patents that cover smartphones, arguing the Taiwanese manufacturer has handed over incomplete internal sales data that Microsoft has no way of interpreting or verifying.
May 06, 2019
Microsoft is owed no royalty payments and is trying to "put the cart before the horse" with its claims against Foxconn parent company Hon Hai, the Taiwanese manufacturer said in a motion to dismiss several of the tech giant's allegations.
March 11, 2019
Taiwanese manufacturer Hon Hai, the parent company of Foxconn, has repeatedly failed to make royalty payments to Microsoft Corp., ignoring the terms of the pair's patent license agreement, the technology giant said in a lawsuit in California federal court.