The New Cold War: Nokia Requests ITC Investigation Into Appl

[Apocalypso]

The New Cold War: Nokia Requests ITC Investigation Into Apple Patent Infringement



Nokia announced it has today filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers.

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 prod... .. .

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Sincerely yours,
Teo

[Nuno Pereira]

Here we go again...

[Bec]

Man it must be good to be a lawyer!

[Waynder]

if they only try that hard about thaier phones =P

[lqllqlq]

It is not the first one...the latest news is that Apple filed complaint againts Nokia for guess what!? - For the same thing...

[topline]

UI? Nokia has patents on UI? They sure don't it.

[ikdo]

'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.'

I think Apple can afford to pay licensing fees.