Under a license agreement between Nokia and Qualcomm, the former used to pay approximately $500 million dollars to the latter for using its patented technology. The License expired between the two companies on April 9, 2007 and the license could not be renewed because the two parties failed to arrive at a consensus. Nokia however continued using the technology which was previously under the license. A settlement was finally announced in a press release dated August 24, 2008 on www.nokia.com, when Nokia and Qualcomm finally agreed to enter into a new agreement covering various technology standards like GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMax, LTE and other technologies. All litigations between the parties were also settled. The new license agreement will be for a term of 15 years and Nokia has been granted a license to use all Qualcomm's patents for use in its mobile devices and network infrastructure equipment. As part of the settlement, Nokia will also pay an up-front payment and on-going royalties payable to Qualcomm. Also, Nokia has agreed to assign a number of patents to Qualcomm which are necessary to WCDMA, GSM and OFDMA and also agreed not to use its patents directly against Qualcomm. The specific terms of the agreement were kept confidential.

A patent infringement action was filed by Meda against Cobalt. This was a result of the latter's submission of an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) to the U.S. FDA for a generic version of Astelin in July 2007. Astelin is used for the treatment of allergic and non-allergic rhinitis. The product is protected by a patent in the U.S. which expires on 1 Nov, 2010, with paediatric exclusivity till 1 May, 2011. A settlement agreement was reached between Meda, through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, Meda Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Cobalt. Cobalt also admitted of infringement of Meda's patent. A license was granted to Cobalt, whereby Cobalt is allowed to launch a generic version of Astelin earliest by 28 Aug, 2010 and pay 32.5% of their net sales of the product till 1 Feb, 2011 as royalty.

Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced a settlement deal with regard to separate software piracy claims against two Wisconsin based companies i.e. Argus Technical Services of Milwaukee and Total administrative Services Corporation (TASC) of Madison. As part of the settlement, Argus Technical services paid BSA $50,000 in damages for having unlicensed copies of Microsoft office software installed on its computers and TASC paid BSA $95,000 for having unlicensed copies of Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec office software installed on its computers. Also the companies have agreed to delete all unauthorized software on office computers, acquire any licenses necessary to become compliant, and commit to implementing stronger software license management policies.