Ericsson is making good money from it IP. These are legit patents too. They are not the company they once were but they still have the patents from their IP.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3017...oyalties-on-iphones-and-ipads.html#tk.rss_all
Apple has agreed to pay Ericsson royalties on the wireless devices it sells in settlement of a long-standing patent dispute.
Ericsson owns patents that it considers essential to the implementation of a number of mobile communications standards, including GSM, the 3G standard UMTS and LTE, used in 4G networks. While it has licensing agreements with other manufacturers of devices operating on these networks, a deal with Apple expired at the start of this year.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3017...oyalties-on-iphones-and-ipads.html#tk.rss_all