STOCKHOLM— Ericsson , the world's largest maker of mobile network infrastructure, filed suit against Samsung Electronics Co. Tuesday in U.S. federal court for infringing its mobile-technology patents after the two companies failed to agree on licensing terms.

Kasim Alfalahi, Ericsson's chief intellectual-property officer, said Samsung has refused to renew a licensing deal covering "hundreds" of Ericsson's patented innovations within several wireless technologies, such as Wi-Fi and fourth-generation Long-Term Evolution technology.

"We have more than 100 cross-licensing agreements with various companies in the telecom industry. All the large consumer-electronics companies apart from Samsung have signed licensing agreements with us," Mr. Alfalahi said.

Samsung, based in South Korea, said in a written statement Tuesday that it "has faithfully committed itself to conducting fair and reasonable negotiations with Ericsson over the past two years, but Ericsson has demanded prohibitively higher royalty rates to renew the same patent portfolio.

"As we cannot accept such extreme demands, we will take all necessary legal measures to protect against Ericsson's excessive claims."