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(Reuters) — Patent licensing company Wi-Lan Inc. said it has struck a deal with BlackBerry Ltd. to dismiss all pending patent litigation between the companies.
Financial terms and other details were not disclosed.
Wi-Lan, which has a string of patent lawsuits against smartphone makers, alleged in December last year that BlackBerry — then known as Research In Motion Ltd. — had infringed a patent related to Bluetooth technologies.
Wi-Lan had alleged that BlackBerry's PlayBook tablet and a wide range of its smartphones — including the Bold, Torch, Pearl and Storm — utilize technology that infringes its patent.
In May, Ottawa, Ontario-based Wi-Lan filed a new lawsuit against the struggling smartphone maker in Florida related to mobile phones with high-speed wireless technology known as long-term evolution, or LTE.
As part of the deal announced on Wednesday, BlackBerry has obtained a license to use some of Wi-Lan's patents that are the subject of the suit in Florida, Wi-Lan said.
The two companies will discuss licensing on certain other wireless technologies, said Wi-Lan, which has also filed patent infringement lawsuits against Apple Inc. and HTC Corp., among others, over the past year.