Nokia Increases Scope of Patent Complaints to Include 'Virtually All' Apple Products
The legal battle between Nokia and Apple has been ratcheted up another notch today with Nokia's announcement that it has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging infringement of Nokia-held patents by "virtually all" Apple products, including the iPhone, iPod, and Mac.
The seven Nokia patents in this complaint relate to Nokia's pioneering innovations that are now being used by Apple to create key features in its products in the area of user interface, as well as camera, antenna and power management technologies. These patented technologies are important to Nokia's success as they allow better user experience, lower manufacturing costs, smaller size and longer battery life for Nokia products.
Nokia filed suit against Apple in late October over alleged infringement of Nokia's cellular and Wi-Fi patents by the iPhone. Apple responded earlier this month with a countersuit of its own for infringement of its own patents. In its court filing, Apple argued that it was not infringing on Nokia's patents, and even if it were determined by a court that it was infringing, Nokia had not offered fair licensing terms, demanding reciprocal access to iPhone-related patents not relevant to industry standards.Top Rated Comments
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28 months ago
apple's going to do the same on them, let's see who wins...
instead of that they could try to make some good phones as they used to do
Since i was a kid i've been having nokia handsets and they worked fine... as a phone! then iphone came out and changed what a good phone is.
The good thing is that if nokia or google or any other make better machines, apple will have to keep up!
waiting for jan26th... 8-D··
instead of that they could try to make some good phones as they used to do
Since i was a kid i've been having nokia handsets and they worked fine... as a phone! then iphone came out and changed what a good phone is.
The good thing is that if nokia or google or any other make better machines, apple will have to keep up!
waiting for jan26th... 8-D··
28 months ago
In a few weeks, Apple's countersuit will be extended to include every user interface Nokia has ever built.
Move along peeps, this is a cold war game of brinkmanship. With a bit of luck cooler heads at Nokia will intervene and they'll ask a reasonable price for the rights to the GSM patent stack.
Move along peeps, this is a cold war game of brinkmanship. With a bit of luck cooler heads at Nokia will intervene and they'll ask a reasonable price for the rights to the GSM patent stack.
28 months ago
Patents out of control (again). Go Apple. Nokia must be scared by the success of the iPhone.
28 months ago
The issue isn't the patents, its that the iPhone is killing the Nokia business model and they can't counter it.
Patents aren't bad, they were recognized as important to entrepreneurs to benefit from their ideas at the founding of this country over 200 years ago.
Its part of due process to go to court over this stuff, even if its because one company is unable to compete in the open market, they have that right.
Patents aren't bad, they were recognized as important to entrepreneurs to benefit from their ideas at the founding of this country over 200 years ago.
Its part of due process to go to court over this stuff, even if its because one company is unable to compete in the open market, they have that right.
27 months ago
The clowns in Finland or wherever the heck they are, are getting desperate. They want some of Apple's billions. Now they want some of what Apple is getting from the Mac and iPod. Greedy bastards.
27 months ago
My my, how times have changed in 2009.
The only thing that will stop Nokia's downward slide is innovation + rethinking what it means for users to interact with mobile devices + a great interface/OS + a robust app store + reducing some of that hardware fragmentation.
In short, Nokia has to start over. This isn't 7 years ago.
The only thing that will stop Nokia's downward slide is innovation + rethinking what it means for users to interact with mobile devices + a great interface/OS + a robust app store + reducing some of that hardware fragmentation.
In short, Nokia has to start over. This isn't 7 years ago.
27 months ago
Maybe Apple should just wait for Nokia's stock price to fall some more, then buy a controlling share of the companies stock.
27 months ago
Wow. Where will all this end up?
I tink that one of the pioneers of modern telecommunication want what they deserve.
(Cue cries of "Nokia fanboy")
Without Nokia (and the others involved in the development of gsm technology), you wouldn't have an iPhone.
I tink that one of the pioneers of modern telecommunication want what they deserve.
(Cue cries of "Nokia fanboy")
Without Nokia (and the others involved in the development of gsm technology), you wouldn't have an iPhone.
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